Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel A Study in Literary Design

This book is an attempt to make some initial tracing of what the gospel looks like through the lens of "secular" literary criticism. As an interdisciplinary study, the work is an effort to contribute to that dialogue by studying the narrative elements of the Fourth Gospel while interacting occasionally with current Johannine research. It is intended not as a challenge to historical criticism or the results of previous research but as an alternative by means of which new data may be collected and readers may be helped to read the gospel more perceptively by looking at certain features of the gospel. This process is to be distinguished from reading the gospel looking for particular kinds of historical evidence.Culpepper, R. Alan is the author of 'Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel A Study in Literary Design', published 1983 under ISBN 9780800620684 and ISBN 0800620682.