The Authorship and Historical Character of the Fourth Gospel - Paperback

by William Sanday (Author)

William Sanday launched his academic career with this book at the age of twenty-eight. In it he insists that the question of authorship of the Fourth Gospel must be determined inductively. Sanday lays out a case for Johannine authorship, assuming that John has the Synoptics available to him, and that the author has an accurate knowledge of Jewish customs and the topography of Jerusalem.

Author Biography

William Sanday (1843-1920) was named Dean Ireland's Professor of Exegesis at Oxford in 1884. By 1895 he was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity and became Chair of the Synoptics Seminar. The author of many books, including the seminal commentary on Romans, Sanday was truly one of the giants of twentieth century British biblical scholarship.