Ebook: John

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/Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Gospel and its Interpreters (pages 1–14):
Chapter 2 Christ the Word: John 1:1–18 (pages 15–25):
Chapter 3 The Baptist's Testimony: John 1:19–51 (pages 26–34):
Chapter 4 Symbols of Purity: John 2:1–22 (pages 35–43):
Chapter 5 The New Birth: John 2:23–4:2 (pages 44–52):
Chapter 6 The Samaritan Woman: John 4:3–45 (pages 53–61):
Chapter 7 Two Healings and their Aftermath: John 4:46–5:47 (pages 62–71):
Chapter 8 Bread from Heaven: John 6 (pages 72–80):
Chapter 9 Ministry in Jerusalem: John 7 and 8 (pages 81–96):
Chapter 10 Parables of the Messiah: John 9 and 10 (pages 97–111):
Chapter 11 The Raising of Lazarus: John 11 (pages 112–121):
Chapter 12 Preparing for Death: John 12 and 13 (pages 122–137):
Chapter 13 Christ and Spirit: John 14 (pages 138–145):
Chapter 14 Valedictory: John 15–17 (pages 146–163):
Chapter 15 Arrest and Trial: John 18 (pages 164–173):
Chapter 16 The Crucifixion: John 19 (pages 174–188):
Chapter 17 The Resurrection: John 20 (pages 189–200):
Chapter 18 The Final Commission: John 21 (pages 201–210):