Raymond Brown's new introduction to the gospel of John: A presentation--and some questions

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

This article is the presidential address delivered at the Sixty-fifth International Meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, held at John Carroll University. Cleveland. OH.

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IN THE PREFACE to his Anchor Bible commentary in 1966, the late Raymond E. Brown apologized for "yet another commentary" on the Gospel of John. He pointed to the brilliance and eloquence of commentaries on this Gospel produced over the first fifty years of the twentieth century (e.g., Loisy, Bauer, Lagrange, Hoskyns, Bultmann, Lightfoot, ...

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