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Behind the Fourth Gospel

by Barnabas S. S. F. Lindars

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 12.7 x 19.9 x 1.1 cm

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The effort to get behind the fourth gospel is no mere literary-critical game. The value we place upon it is inseparable from the way in which we understand its origins. The true relation to the Gospel to the beginnings of Christianity remains unsettled question of New Testament scholarship. Barnabas Lindars discusses the attempts to identify continuous sources, among them the ""discourse source"" emphasized by Bultmann, and the ""signs source"" recently reconstructed by R. T. Fortna. A more promising approach, he thinks, lies in considering John's technique as a writer who builds upon the primitive tradition--first in the discourses, then when miracle stories are used in conjunction with discourse, then in extended narrative. This provides the vantage point for a survey of the Gospel as a whole, from which its unknown author emerges as essentially a preacher, who presents the authentic challenge of the message of Jesus in a work of immense creative skill and compelling theological power. Barnabas Lindars (1923-91), SSF, was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester.
Behind the Fourth Gospel and John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10
John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10Behind the Fourth Gospel

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    June 2010

  • Weight

    91g

  • Dimensions

    12.7 x 19.9 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781608997305

  • ISBN-10

    1608997308

  • Eden Code

    4700112

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