Hermeneia: John 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapters 1–6 (Herm)
Overview
This first volume of Ernst Haenchen’s two-volume commentary on the Gospel of John contains a number of valuable insights. The introductory material on Johannine criticism is some of the clearest exposition for students available anywhere.
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- Contains a number of valuable insights
- Includes some of the clearest exposition for students available anywhere
- Presents a fantastic commentary for students, teachers, scholars, and professors
Top Highlights
“It is astonishing that the Jews are unmoved by the miracle, either at this point or in what follows. They are concerned only with the observance of the sabbath law.” (Page 246)
“Later, the Evangelist will now and again remind the reader what this life is” (Page 258)
“Bultmann’s exegesis astray: ‘It is now perfectly clear what is meant when it is said that the Father ‘draws’ men to him. The πᾶς [‘everyone’] already indicates that it does not refer to the selection of a chosen few, but that any man is free to be among those drawn by the Father.… Moreover verse 45b shows that this ‘drawing’ is not a magic process, nor is it governed by rigid laws like the laws of nature. It occurs when man abandons his own judgement and ‘hears’ and ‘learns’ from the Father, when he allows God to speak to him. The ‘drawing’ by the Father occurs not, as it were, behind man’s decision of faith but in it.’” (Page 292)
“‘My hour has not yet come.’ That means: Jesus does not permit himself to be prompted to act by any human agent, even when that agent is his own mother; he is driven by the will of the Father alone.15 When Jesus then performs what is requested of him in a few minutes or a few days later, that is no contradiction in the eyes of the Evangelist. It has nothing to do with a temporal interval, but with the fact that Jesus will only heed the divine call (7:13*, 30*). All such acts of surrender to the will of the Father culminate, however, in the final act of surrender to the Father’s love in the exaltation on the cross (15:13*, 13:1*, 19:30*). Every ‘sign’ performed earlier is an anticipation, a preview of the final one.” (Page 173)
- Title: John 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapters 1–6
- Author: Ernst Haenchen
- Series: Hermeneia
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 1984
- Logos Release Date: 2006
- Pages: 344
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible › Commentaries--Collected works; Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:HRMNEIA64AJN
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:01:21Z
