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Understanding the Fourth Gospel (Clarendon Paperbacks)
by John Ashton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1993-06-10)
ISBN: 0198263538
EAN: 9780198263531
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 624 pages
SKU: S061042-2585-DL
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. Very tight binding. Book has underlines. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
The first comprehensive study of St. John's Gospel in forty years, this book provides new and coherent answers to what Rudolf Baltmann regarded as the two great riddles of the Gospel: its position in the history of Christian thought, and its central or governing idea. Ashton provides translations of all non-English quotations, and confines detailed exegetical arguments and intricate questions of specialized concern to the footnotes, therein making Understanding the Fourth Gospel an accessible study of the Gospel for the general reader.
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Everything About John the Evangelist You Ever Wanted to Know
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-04-04
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ashton has left no stone unturned. Every pebble has been picked up, looked at, cataloged, set aside, and used. There is no aspect of Johannine studies that Ashton has not read, learned, mastered and presented here in this literal encyclopedia of Johannine learning. This is not an easy bedtime book to read. Like climbing a mountain. It requires effort. It requires patience. It requires seriousness and diligence. But for the person willing to work through this massively written, theologically dense, literate work on John's gospel -- the view and scenery are breathtaking and you will never be the same. Once I finished reading it, it took my breath away when I considered what Ashton was up to here. Ashton shows himself a master of Johannine studies as few others are, and there are many brilliant commentators on John. Not for the faint of heart, but worthy of study and reflection.
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