Designs for the Church in the Gospel of John
Designs for the Church in the Gospel of John

Author: R. Alan Culpepper

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2021-07-16

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 3161602625

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The essays in this volume, which span four decades, represent sustained reflection on the historical setting, narrative devices, and theology of the Gospel of John. Methodologically, the essays develop a narrative-critical approach to the Gospel, producing insights that have implications for historical and theological issues. Thematically, many of the essays explore the Gospel's ecclesiology, especilly its vision for the church and its mission. As a collection, this volume provides an introduction to the Fourth Gospel, analyses of major issues (including John's anti-Judaism, relationship to 1 John, irony, imagery, creation ethics, evil, and eschatology), and in-depth exploration of key texts, especially John 1:1-18, 2:20; 4:35-38; 5:1-18; 5:21-30; 10:1-18; 12:12-15; 13:1-20; 19:16-30; 20:19-23; and chapter 21.

The Conceptual Worlds of the Fourth Gospel
The Conceptual Worlds of the Fourth Gospel

Author: Charles B. Puskas

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-01-08

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1532681739

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Over, under, and through John's story of Jesus are unforgettable ideas and concepts, profoundly simple and simply profound, for the author's own audience and beyond. These ideas did not originate in a vacuum. They have recurred and been repeated before and after the writing of the Fourth Gospel. For this reason we will examine the meaning of its words and themes in the context of its Jewish-Greco-Roman milieu. Much of our intertextual understanding will be derived from alleged parallels that involve comparisons of similar vocabulary and phrases, as well as parallel concepts and images from the Old Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, and other relevant writings. Such parallels will help to determine the meaning of a word or expression, the translation of a particular language, determining any direct influences upon the Fourth Gospel, parallel traditions, or the influence of its ideas, as a creative and inspiring work of later antiquity.

The Progressive Publication of Matthew
The Progressive Publication of Matthew

Author: B. Ward Powers

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 0805448489

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A new voice enters the ongoing "Synoptic Problem" debate, suggesting the answer may that the Gospel of Matthew was published in stages.

Creation Stories in Dialogue: The Bible, Science, and Folk Traditions
Creation Stories in Dialogue: The Bible, Science, and Folk Traditions

Author: Jan G. van der Watt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-02

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9004306676

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This book is about creation stories in dialogue, not only between different religious views, but also between current day scientific perspectives. International specialists, like Alan Culpepper, David Christian, John Haught, Randall Zachman, Ellen van Wolde from various disciplines are reflecting on the interface between science and religion relating questions of creation and origin. This multi-disciplinary discussion by some of the leading exponents in this field makes the book unique, not only in its depth of discussion, but also in it wide ranging interdisciplinary discussion. The point of departure of all the contributions is the prestige lecture by Alan Culpepper where he argues for bringing Biblical material into discussion with modern scientific insights relating to creation and origin.

Mark’s Gospel
Mark’s Gospel

Author: C. Clifton Black

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2023-05-11

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 146746094X

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A culmination of contemporary scholarship on the Gospel of Mark. A preeminent scholar of the Gospel of Mark, C. Clifton Black has been studying and publishing on the Gospel for over thirty years. This new collection brings together his most pivotal work and fresh investigations to constitute an all-in-one compendium of contemporary Markan scholarship and exegesis. The essays included cover scriptural commentary, historical studies, literary analysis, theological argument, and pastoral considerations. Among other topics Black explores: • the Gospel’s provenance, authorship, and attribution • the significance of redaction criticism in Markan studies • recent approaches to the Gospel’s interpretation • literary and rhetorical analyses of the Gospel’s narrative • the kingdom of God and its revelation in Jesus • Mark’s theology of creation, suffering, and discipleship • the Gospel of Mark’s relationship to the Gospel of John and Paul’s letters • the passion in Mark as the Gospel’s recapitulation Scholars, advanced students, and clergy alike will consider this book an indispensable resource for understanding the foundational Gospel.

Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible
Oral and Manuscript Culture in the Bible

Author: J. A. Loubser

Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1920109188

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Drawing on a wide range of scholarship dealing with the properties and function of the materialities of the oral and scribal arts, as well as oral-scribal interfaces, the author unfolds before our eyes and makes manifest to our ears a world of communications in which there are no original texts, let alone original speech, where manuscripts are written to be remembered and read out aloud, where scribal products exhibit both a metonymic and a polyvalent quality.