Gospel according to John

New in the Eerdmans Classic Biblical Commentaries collectionIn this commentary on John originally published in Dutch in 1987 and translated into English a decade later Herman Ridderbos engages the host of twentieth-century interpretations while also developing his own integral understanding of John in which the Gospel emerges as a profoundly theological work. Beginning with a theological introduction on "e;the peculiar character of the Fourth Gospel,"e; Ridderbos uses verse-by-verse exposition to unpack John's distinctive apostolic character, offering expert literary and homiletical exegesis of the Fourth Gospel "e;as the Christian church adopted it."e;