Understanding the Fourth Gospel - Tapa dura

In this first comprehensive study of St John's Gospel for almost 40 years, John Ashton attempts to provide 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. Detailed exegetical arguments, advancing scholarly debate or intricate questions of specialized concern, are, for the most part, confined to footnotes and a series of five major excursuses. The central questions, however, are all tackled in the main text where all non-English sources quoted are translated so as to make the book accessible to the general reader.