John 1–10

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
List of Contributors xv
Foreword: “Come Eat of My Bread . . . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom” xix
     Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary:
        “She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25) xxiii
    Barbara E. Reid, OP
Author’s Preface xliii
Author’s Introduction xlv
John 1:1-18 Sophia Finds Her Home 1
John 1:19-51 The First Days: Sophia Gathers Disciples 35
John 2:1-12 A Jewish Mother Takes the Initiative at Cana 53
John 2:13-22 Sophia Claims Her Dwelling 65
John 2:23–3:36 Nicodemus: The Labor of New Birth 83
John 4:1-45 A Woman’s Witness in Samaria 109
John 4:46-54 The Household of Faith 131
The Feasts of the Jews 13
John 5:1-47 Sophia Embodies the Law 141
John 6:1-71 Sophia Nourishes Her Children 161
John 7:1-52; 8:12-59 Sophia’s Homecoming: Tabernacles 1 193
John 9:1–10:21 Sophia Ministers in the Tabernacle 235
John 7:53–8:11 In Search of a Home 261
John 10:22-42 Sophia’s Festival of Lights (Hanukkah) 269
Works Cited 283