Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

Reading the Fourth Gospel in search for its first audience can lead to a fresh awareness of the way in which the contemporary disciple is its audience.

Current study of the Fourth Gospel is marked by a growing concentration on the question about the community in whose midst it was written.

It is the genius of the Fourth Evangelist to have created a gospel in which Jesus as the representative of the world above visits and really lives in this world without depriving it of its verisimilitude and without depriving life here of its seriousness.

Recent methodology in Gospel research is casting light not only on church history, but also on the growth of theology and faith in the first century.