Creation and Christology: A Study on the Johannine Prologue in the Light of Early Jewish Creation Accounts

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Creation and Christology: A Study on the Johannine Prologue in the Light of Early Jewish Creation Accounts. By Masanobu Endo. WUNT 2/149. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2002, xx + 292 pp., euro 54.00 paper.

Johannine scholars, evangelical and otherwise, have long wrestled with determining the theological background for the prologue of the Fourth Gospel. Masanobu Endo's recently published doctoral dissertation, written under the supervision of Richard Bauckham at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, is another attempt at wrestling with this question.

Endo argues that the prologue of the Fourth ...

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