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Author Reinhartz, Adele, 1953-

Title Befriending the beloved disciple : a Jewish reading of the Gospel of John / Adele Reinhartz
Published New York : Continuum, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. Prologue; 2. Reading as Relationship; 3. The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple; 4. The Beloved Disciple as Mentor: A Compliant Reading of the Fourth Gospel; 5. The Beloved Disciple as Opponent: A Resistant Reading of the Fourth Gospel; 6. The Beloved Disciple as Colleague: A Sympathetic Reading of the Fourth Gospel; 7. The Beloved Disciple as Other: An Engaged Reading of the Fourth Gospel; 8. Conclusion: Befriending the Beloved Disciple; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF ANCIENT LITERATURE; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF NAMES
Summary Adele Reinhartz has been studying and teaching the Gospel of John for many years. Earlier, she chose to ignore the love/hate relationship that the book provokes in her, a Jew, and took refuge in an objective historical-critical approach. At this stage her relationship to the Gospel was not so much a friendship as a business relationship. No longer willing to ignore the negative portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the text, nor the insight that her own Jewish identity inevitably does play a role in her work as an exegete, Reinhartz here explores the Fourth Gospel through the approach known as ethi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and indexes
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SUBJECT Bible. John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. John -- Theology
Bible. John fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
Theology
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441125224
1441125221