August’s free book comes from seasoned scholar and teacher J. Louis Martyn, a contributor to the notable Anchor Yale Bible. This month, you can add his Johannine studies commentary History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel to your Logos library at no cost.
Here’s a look at the type of insight Martyn’s work provides, from the volume’s introduction:
In setting John against a Jewish, rather than a Christian, background, Martyn had predecessors. But he rightly gets credit for a sea change in Johannine studies for somewhat the same reason that the Wright brothers got credit for the airplane. Others may have gotten off the ground, but Martyn—like the Wright brothers—achieved sustained flight. . . .
Suffice it to say that Martyn, unlike the dominant interpreters antecedent to him, took seriously the tension and hostility between “the Jews” and Jesus as the key to the historical life-setting and purpose of the Gospel of John.
One bestcommentaries.com reviewer describes the commentary this way:
Martyn reads John as a two-level drama, in which the story functions both on the historical level (Jesus’ lifetime) and on the contemporary level (time of writing). While you may not agree with all of Martyn’s conclusions, you should read this short book as you study John. It will broaden the way you think about the issues going on.
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