In discussing the author, one must acknowledge that John Ashton's expertise and interest in food history and cultural anthropology have evidently laid the foundation for this work.
Arguing that the thought-world of the Gospel is Jewish, not Greek, and that the text is composed over an extended period as the evangelist responded to the changing situation of the community, this book offers a partial answer to a key ...
The stories in this book illustrate the importance of using your imagination, challenging the status quo, and thinking on your feet when initiating change.
John Ashton argues that in the case of the Fourth Gospel, an answer is to be found in the religious experience of the Evangelist himself, who turned from being a practicing Jew to professing a new revelation centered on Christ as the ...
A third chapter is intended to supplement and correct this larger work. The rest of the book explores some of the serious theoretical weaknesses in much recent writing on the Gospel and makes some alternative proposals.
This book offers 50 powerful, curated aphorisms around public health by Professor John Ashton CBE and the late Professor Lowell Levin of the Yale School of Public Health.