It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic by John Shelby Spong
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John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary, interpretive retelling of the events in Jesus' life through the medium of fictional characters, from Nicodemus and Lazarus to the "Beloved Disciple." The Fourth Gospel was designed first to place Jesus into the context of the Jewish scriptures, then to place him into the worship patterns of the synagogue...
The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic by John Shelby Spong is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.
This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic aloud.
The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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