John 11-21

Mary L. Coloe, PBVM, is professor of New Testament at Yarra Theological Union, a college of the University of Divinity in Melbourne. Mary taught for over twenty years at Australian Catholic University and also at Boston College, the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, and in Jerusalem. Mary has many academic publications on the Gospel of John, as well as books to help parents and teachers, such as A Friendly Guide to John, The Two Hands of God, and A Friendly Guide to the Birth of Jesus. Mary has also written an introduction to the Johannine literature for the new revised edition of the Jerome Biblical Commentary. Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015. Mary Ann Beavis is professor emerita of religion and culture at St. Thomas More College (Saskatoon, Canada). She received MA degrees from the University of Manitoba and the University of Notre Dame; she holds a PhD from Cambridge University (UK). Her areas of interest and expertise include Christian origins, feminist biblical interpretation, Christianity and Goddess spirituality, and religion and popular culture. She is the author of several single-author and edited books as well as many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews.

Contents
List of Abbreviations    ix
Author’s Introduction    xiii
John 11:1-54  Sophia Is Justified by Her Works: The Raising of Lazarus    313
John 11:55–12:50  Sophia’s Testing Begins    333
John 13–17  Sophia’s Banquet: Overview    353
John 13:1-38  Sophia’s Gifts    359
John 14:1-31  Sophia’s Household    381
John 15:1-17  Sophia’s Friends    401
John 15:18–16:4a  Sophia’s Friends to Be Tested by the Synagogue    431
John 16:4b-33  Sophia’s Friends to Be Tested by the World    443
John 17:1-26  Sophia’s Prayer for Her Friends    457
John 18:1–19:42  Sophia’s Hour Arrives    473
John 20:1-31  Sophia’s Radiance    507
John 21:1-25  Sophia Has Built Her House— The Gospel Continues    537 
Afterword    551
Works Cited 553
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings    571
Index of Modern Authors and Subjects    585