For more than a century, scholars have considered the Gospel of John to be latest (second century) and the most indebted to Greek philosophy of all the Gospels. But as James H. Charlesworth explains in “Reinterpreting John,” that view is being turned on its head by new manuscript discoveries-prominent among them the Dead Sea Scrolls. The emerging scholarly consensus sees John to have been written around the year 100 and to be the most thoroughly Jewish of the Gospels. Charlesworth guides us through the documents that are responsible for this sea change in Johannine studies, taking special note of […]
