Interpreting the Gospel of John: A Practical Guide, 2nd ed.

by Gary M. Burge

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2013

Overview

This classroom favorite by respected New Testament scholar Gary Burge is a practical resource for students and scholars. The expanded second edition, revised to take account of current scholarship, introduces software tools that have become available since the original edition was published. Combining original insight with how-to guidance, this introduction to the Gospel of John helps students interpret the text and apply it in teaching and preaching.

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Key Features

• Classroom tools for teaching the Gospel of John
• Current software guides

Contents

Top Highlights

“John is filled, Abrahams contended, with subtle allusions to the Old Testament and Jewish tradition. In John 2:6, for example, John refers to ‘stone’ water pots for Jesus’s Cana miracle. Only a Jew who understood ritual purity would appreciate such a detail.” (Pages 11–12)

“Clearly, the text of John is made up of sources pieced together to form a unified narrative. If we look carefully, we can discern seams where these sources have been stitched together. Some of them are rough, rugged signs of an awkward assembly. But that is fine. It shows us that John, no less than the Synoptics, is made up of ancient sources that predate the author’s own efforts.” (Page 83)

“Rather, John has artfully crafted a Gospel, and it bears all the marks of a unique and careful design.” (Page 98)

“The second area of development has to do with historical location” (Page 23)

“But a new, infinitely more beneficial type of commentary seeks the theological message within the canonical form of the text. Scholars such as Brown (1966–70), Morris (1971), Barrett (1978), Beasley-Murray (1987), Carson (1991), Witherington (1995), Burge (2000), Keener (2003), Köstenberger (2004), and von Wahlde (2010), among others, know the older tradition but choose for theological reasons to make sense of the Gospel as we have it—to explore its own coherence (instead of hidden strata) and to examine its final message (instead of traces of its development).” (Page 76)

Product Details

• Title: Interpreting the Gospel of John: A Practical Guide
• Author: Gary M. Burge
• Edition: 2nd
• Series: Guides to New Testament Exegesis
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Pages: 224
• Resource Type: Introductions
• Topic: Hermeneutics and Interpretation

About Gary M. Burge

Gary M. Burge (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is dean of the faculty and professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary. He previously taught for twenty-five years at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Among his many published books are The New Testament in Seven Sentences, Theology Questions Everyone Asks (with coeditor David Lauber), A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion, Mapping Your Academic Career, The New Testament in Antiquity (coauthored with Gene Green), and the award-winning Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians.