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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Bible. John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. John -- Theology
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Bible. John fast |
Subject |
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
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Theology
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781441125224 |
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1441125221 |
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