How do Israel's Scriptures inform the account of Jesus's cruciform death in the Gospel of John? What does it mean for John's portrayal of Jesus's death to be "according to the Scriptures"? The Use of the Jewish Scriptures in the Johannine Passion Narrative: That the Scripture May Be Perfected argues that they are the focal element of the Johannine portrayal, and without them, John's Passion Narrative simply makes no sense. Whether through the evangelist's appeal to the fulfilment of Scripture (with such fulfilment accompanying the very moment of Jesus's death) or whether through allusions to the narratives of Creation or Passover, Israel's Scriptures provide the Passion Narrative's veritable heartbeat. This book also considers the impact of John's scriptural usage on the very concept of Scripture itself, contending that Scripture is brought to perfection by Jesus's actions and to a new standing or status in this regard. David M. Allen examines how the use of Scripture in the Passion account impacts the Fourth Gospel's own self-understanding, arguing that its capacity to pronounce on Scripture's fulfilment attests to the Gospel's own self-avowed, scriptural credentials.

David M. Allen is tutor in New Testament and academic director at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, UK, and UK representative for the Anglican Communion's "Bible in the Life of the Church" project. He is the author of Deuteronomy and Exhortation in Hebrews (2008) and a contributor to Jesus among Friends and Enemies (2011).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Scripture and the Fourth Gospel

Chapter 1: Mapping the Territory

Chapter 2: Quotation Usage in John's Passion Narrative

Chapter 3: Allusion Usage in John's Passion Narrative

Chapter 4: The Implications of Scriptural Usage in John's Passion Narrative (1): For Israel's Scriptures

Chapter 5: The Implications of Scriptural Usage in John's Passion Narrative (2): For the Fourth Gospel

Conclusion

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