John 11-21 (Wisdom Commentary | WC)

by Mary L. Coloe

Publisher:

Liturgical Press

, 2021

Overview

Teaching and researching the Gospel of John for thirty years has led author Mary L. Coloe to an awareness of the importance of the wisdom literature to make sense of Johannine theology, language, and symbolism: in the prologue, with Nicodemus, in the Bread of Life discourse, with Mary and Lazarus, and in the culminating “Hour.” She also shows how the late Second Temple theology expressed in the books of Sirach and Wisdom, considered deuterocanonical and omitted from some Bible editions, are essential intertexts. Only the book of Wisdom speaks of “the reign of God” (Wis 10:10), “eternity life” (Wis 5:15), and the ambrosia maintaining angelic life (Wis 19:21)—all concepts found in John’s Gospel.

While the Gospel explicitly states the Logos was enfleshed in Jesus, this is also true of Sophia. Coloe makes the case that Jesus’s words and deeds embody Sophia throughout the narrative. At the beginning of each chapter Coloe provides text from the later wisdom books that resonate with the Gospel passage, drawing Sophia out of the shadows.

Key Features

• Makes the case that Jesus’s words and deeds embody Sophia throughout the narrative.
• Provides text from the later wisdom books.
• Puts the gospel narrative into a lively and life-giving conversation

Product Details

• Title: John 11–21
• Author: Mary L. Coloe
• Series: Wisdom Commentary
• Volume: 44B
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 303
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. John 11-21 › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. John 11-21 › Feminist criticism
• ISBNs: 9780814688397, 9780814681688, 9780814688144, 9780814681930, 081468839X, 0814681689, 0814688144, 081468193X
• Resource ID: LLS:WISDOMCOMM64JN1121
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:54:16Z

About Mary L. Coloe

Mary L. Coloe, PBVM, is professor of New Testament at Yarra Theological Union, a college of the University of Divinity in Melbourne. Mary taught for over twenty years at Australian Catholic University and also at Boston College, the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, and in Jerusalem. Mary has many academic publications on the Gospel of John, as well as books to help parents and teachers, such as A Friendly Guide to John, The Two Hands of God, and A Friendly Guide to the Birth of Jesus. Mary has also written an introduction to the Johannine literature for the new revised edition of the Jerome Biblical Commentary.