Review in: The Expository
Times 1999 110: 260
Review door: Larry KreitzerGevonden op: http://ext.sagepub.com/content/110/8/260.3.full.pdf+html
THE GOSPEL OF
JOHN
The Gospel of
John (Michael Glazier, 1998, $34.95, pp. xxii + 594, ISBN 0-8146-5806-7) by
Francis J. Moloney SDB represents the latest contribution in the Sacra Pagina
commentary series under the editorship of Daniel J. Harrington SJ, a series
written by an international team of Roman Catholic biblical scholars. The aim
is to produce a commentary series which is of value to professional teachers,
clergy and students alike. The volumes in the series attempt a sound critical
analysis of the text itself, combining traditional insights and lines of
interpretation with new methodological approaches. In Moloney’s case the new
approach involves a narrative-critical reading of John, particularly as it
applies to the narrative design of the Gospel as a whole (Moloney’s approach
has been hammered out over the past six years in other publications). Not
surprisingly, according to Moloney, John 20:30-31 has a crucial role to play in
the original author’s intention, bringing, as it does, the Christian readership
to the point of ’going farther in their belief in Jesus’ (p. 542). In fact,
there is a compelling case made for the original author’s integrity, control
and consistency in presenting his story of the life of the Lord, although the
technically complicated (and inevitably) insoluble debate about the identity of
‘John’, ’the Beloved Disciple’, ’the one Jesus loved’, etc. is practically
sidestepped within the commentary. The secondary literature handled is quite
up-to-date, particularly in terms of journal articles, although there is a
marked reliance upon the work of earlier Catholic scholars, notably R. Brown and
R. Schnackenburg. Full indexes of texts and modern writers round out the handsomely
produced volume.
LARRY KREITZER,
REGENT’S PARK COLLEGE, OXFORD
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