Cornelis Bennema is Senior Lecturer in New Testament at Union School of Theology, UK. He is the author of The Power of Saving Wisdom: An Investigation of Spirit and Wisdom in Relation to the Soteriology of the Fourth Gospel (Mohr Siebeck, 2002), A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative (Fortress, 2014) and Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John, 2nd edn (Fortress, 2014).