Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Genesis
1: Religious Dissent
2: The Community and its Book
3: Messiah
4: Son of God
5: Son of Man
6: Messenger of God
II. Revelation
Introduction
7: Intimations of Apocalyptic
8: The Gospel Genre
9: The Story of Wisdom
10: Dualism
11: Departure and Return
12: Passion and Resurrection
13: The Medium and the Message

About the Author

John Ashton was formerly University Lecturer in New Testament Studies, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

Reviews

Understanding the Fourth Gospel is surely a classic: it sets a new agenda for Johannine studies overall, is endlessly illuminating in detail, and beautifully written Robin Griffith-Jones, Times Literary Supplement John Ashton has already done more than anyone else in our generation to help us to study and understand the Fourth Gospel this...[is a] magisterial book. Robin Griffith-Jones, Times Literary Supplement The JTS review of Ashton's first edition concludes on an entirely favourable note: 'In the way in which he draws together the threads of recent research, as well as in his own contributions, Ashton truly represents the advance of Johannine scholarship since Bultmann and Dodd' (JTS 43, 1991, pp. 594-600). This assessment still holds true. D. Moody Smith, The Journal of Theological Studies [A] major treatise on the theology of John. International Review of Biblical Studies The new edition of Understanding the Fourth Gospel will continue to be consulted as a highly significant volume and a standard text on John's Gospel. It offers fresh insight into this theologically rich gospel. Paul Foster, Expository Times