John through the Centuries (Blackwell Bible Commentaries | BBC)

by Mark Edwards

Publisher:

Blackwell Publishing

, 2004

Overview

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.

Key Features

• 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
• Features excerpts from a wide variety of poets who give a creative interpretation of John’s Gospel, and considers many artistic representations
• 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

Praise for the Print Edition

Mark Edwards’ John commentary breaks new ground in the field of the reception history of biblical texts. Displaying a remarkable knowledge of its different readings, he brings into dialogue the most diverse and unexpected commentators on the text: bishops, scholars, devotional writers, poets, artists, hymn-writers, and provides the whole with a wonderfully lucid and learned survey of the history of Johannine interpretion.

—John Riches, Professor of Divinity with Biblical Criticism, University of Glasgow

An attractive inventory of exegetical opinion on one of the most important books of the NT. A true mine of information, published in a series that makes the life of researchers easier.

—International Review of Biblical Studies

Product Details

• Title: John
• Author: Mark Edwards
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 242
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 063122906, 0631229078, 9780631229070
• Resource ID: LLS:JOHNCENTURIES
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:07:56Z

About Mark Edwards

Mark Edwards is professor of early Christian studies at the University of Oxford, where he has taught since 1993. His books include Origen against Plato (2002), Culture and Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus (2006), Religions of the Constantinian Empire (2015), and Aristotle in Early Christian Thought (2019).