"This is an important contribution to our understanding of the Christology of the Fourth Gospel It addresses an unresolved issue in the 'interpretation of the Gospel and does so creatively and with admirable scholarship. The author has a gift for defining the issues, isolating the essential questions, and approaching them analytically Moreover, she writes clearly and argues her case with cogency I recommend this book with enthusiasm to anyone who might want to go to the heart of Johanmne thought."

-Robert Kysar

"A tour de force. Marianne Meye Thompson takes on Ernst Kasemann's oft-quoted conclusion that the Fourn Gospel depicts Jesus as 'God striding on the earth and that its Christology is 'naively Docetic. Her meticulou analysis of the humanity of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel offers fresh and balanced perspectives on the role signs and the Gospel's treatment of Jesus death from now on scholars will be unable to cite Kasemann withou responding to Thompson."

-R. Alan Culpepper