![]() John Through the Centuries
ISBN: 978-0-631-22907-0
Paperback
256 pages
January 2004, ©2004, Wiley-Blackwell
US $54.95
This price is valid for United States. Change location to view local pricing and availability. Other Available Formats: Hardcover
|
Contact a Wiley Sales Rep
Instructors may request an evaluation copy for this title.
|
This pioneering commentary embraces the full scope and themes raised in John's Gospel, offering an engaging and perceptive reading. Mark Edwards explores a diverse range of excerpts and creative responses, with particular emphasis on the treatment of the Gospel in English poetry.
- Explores the diverse themes and issues raised in John’s Gospel, and considers its influence on figures from Saint Augustine, to Dorothy Sayers and Bob Dylan.
- Treats well-known interpreters such as Thomas Aquinas along with lesser-known figures such as the Gnostic Heracleon, and the sixth-century hymn-writer, Romanos.
- Brings ancient and modern commentators into dialogue with each other, and takes a critical stance towards some parallels drawn by modern scholars between the Gospel and the surrounding pagan culture.
- Features excerpts from a wide variety of poets who give a creative interpretation of John’s Gospel, and considers many artistic representations.
- Suggests that imaginative response can illuminate a reading of the Bible where purely critical and historical analysis has proved unsatisfactory.
- An accessible introduction and extensive section notes address interpretations of the Gospel from antiquity to the present.
- Published as part of the ground-breaking Blackwell Bible Commentaries series.
More information about this series is available from the Blackwell Bible Commentaries website at http://www.bbibcomm.net/
Buy Both and Save 25%!
| + |
Buy John Through the Centuries
(List Price: US $54.95)
with Psalms Through the Centuries, Volume One (List Price = US $39.95) Cannot be combined with any other offers. Learn more. |





Share This