This volume makes available a series of innovative historical, theological and exegetical studies from one of the leading contemporary interpreters of the Fourth Gospel. Moloney devotes attention to the many contexts that produced the text, and the contexts of subsequent readers and interpreters.

Francis J. Moloney, D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 1975 is at present Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies and the Katharine Drexel Professor at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. He has published extensively, including major commentaries on the Gospel of John (Liturgical Press) and the Gospel of Mark (Hendrickson).