The Gospel According to John (I-XII) (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)

About this book

In the first volume of Raymond E. Browns magisterial three-volume commentary on the Gospel According to John all of the major Johannine questionsof authorship composition dating the relationship of John to the Synoptics (Mark Matthew and Luke)are discussed. The important theories of modern biblical scholarship concerning John are weighed against the evidence given in the text and against prevailing biblical research. In sum what is attempted is a synthesis of the major scholarly insights that bear on the Fourth Gospel. The translationas Father Brown states at the outsetstrives not for any formal beauty but rather for an accurate and contemporary version: the simple everyday Greek of the Gospel has been rendered into the ordinary American English of today. The result is a translation that will strike the reader with uncommon immediacy. Father Brown also analyzes in the appendixes the meaning use and frequency of certain key words and phrases that occur in John and examines the differences between the Johannine and Synoptic treatments of the miracle stories. The chapters of the Gospel translated here in Volume 29 (112) comprise the Prologue which opens with the famous In the beginning was the Word and the Book of Signs an account of the miracles of Jesus and of his ministry.