Wipf and Stock, Date: 2011-03-01. Paperback. Used: Good. 2011. Wipf and Stock ISBN 1610971027 9781610971027 [US]

Wipf and Stock, Date: 2011-03-01. Paperback. New. 2011. Wipf and Stock ISBN 1610971027 9781610971027 [US]

Wipf and Stock, 3/1/Date: 2011. Paperback. New book. Previously published by SCM, 1985. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 2011. Wipf and Stock ISBN 1610971027 9781610971027 [US]

ISBN10: 1610971027, ISBN13: 9781610971027, [publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

Wipf & Stock Publishers, Date: 2011. Paperback. New. 460 pages. 8.90x6.00x1.10 inches. 2011. Wipf & Stock Publishers ISBN 1610971027 9781610971027 [GB]

ISBN10: 1610971027, ISBN13: 9781610971027, [publisher: Wipf And Stock] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - ''It has been the fate of many books on John to be left unfinished, for its interpretation naturally forms the crowning of a lifetime. I have myself been intending to write a book on the Fourth Gospel since the 'fifties, before I broke off (reluctantly) to be Bishop of Woolwich, though I am grateful now that I did not produce it prematurely at that time. It means however that I shall be compelled to refer to and often recapitulate material directly or indirectly related to the Johannine literature, which I have written over the years (some of it indeed while I was bishop).''Many scholars in fact, if not most now, think that the author of the Gospel himself never lived to finish it and have seen the work as the product of numerous hands and redactors. As will become clear, I prefer to believe that the ancient testimony of the church is correct that John wrote it 'while still in the body' and that its roughnesses, self-corrections and failures of connection, real or imagined, are the result of its not having been smoothly or finally edited. If so I am in good company. At any rate who could wish for a better last testimony from his friends than that 'his witness is true' (John 21.24) In other words, he got it right--historically and theologically.''from the IntroductionAt ...
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