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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReading this book is a moving experience. Equally, however, one comes away from having done so with a head brimming with new ideas and perspectives to return to the Gospel and see it again in a fresh light. John Ashton was a gifted exegete, who brought phenomenal scholarship, literary sensibility and insight, and a seasoning of delicious humour, to the task of interpreting the work of the gifted author of the Gospel of John. Wendy E.S. North, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham This volume provides a feast of ideas on John's Gospel from the latter career of John Ashton, a colossus of international Johannine scholarship. Particularly remarkable for its detailed and moving autobiographical account of his fifty-year engagement with the Fourth Gospel, its essays amplify and develop the insights, and exhibit the exegetical sensitivity, of Ashton's magisterial Understanding the Fourth Gospel. Every serious student of John's Gospel should read this book and absorb its wisdom. Philip F. Esler, Portland Chair in New Testament Studies, Director of the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation, University of Gloucestershire
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Christopher Rowland and Catrin H. Williams vii 1. Discovering the Gospel of John: A Fifty-Year Journey of Exploration 1 2. Really a Prologue? 64 3. John and the Johannine Literature: The Woman at the Well 84 4. Riddles and Mysteries 101 5. "Mystery" in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Fourth Gospel 113 6. The Johannine Son of Man: A New Proposal 131 7. Reflections on a Footnote 156 8. Browning on Feuerbach and Renan 170 John Ashton (13 June 1931 - 3 February 2016) by Christopher Rowland 182 Bibliography 187
