Cast Out of the Covenant: Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of JohnThe Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the Gospel's exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism with its portrayal of the Jews as the children of the devil (John 8: 44) who persecuted Christ and his followers? One widespread solution to this problem is the so called "expulsion hypothesis." According to this view, the Fourth Gospel was addressed to a Jewish group of