The Fourth Gospel in four dimensions :Judaism and Jesus, the Gospels and Scripture /D. Moody Smith.

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

The Fourth Gospel in four dimensions :Judaism and Jesus, the Gospels and Scripture /D. Moody Smith.

Description

The Gospel of John in its Jewish context : why begin with Judaism? -- Judaism in the Johannine context : does the Gospel of John misrepresent Judaism? -- The stressful tension between Judaism and the Johannine Jesus : revisiting and evaluating J. Louis Martyn's classic proposal -- The problem of history in John : the gospel narratives as history at two levels -- John's quest for Jesus : the pastness of the present Jesus -- John's portrait of Jesus : Jesus portrayed as talking christology in John's narrative -- Jesus tradition in the Gospel of John : are John's differences from the synoptics coincident with their historical value? -- Redaction criticism, genre, narrative criticism, and the historical Jesus in the Gospel of John : does John also enshrine a separate memory? -- The historical figure of Jesus in 1 John : Jesus at the beginning giving a commandment for the future -- From synoptic Jesus to Johannine Christ : historical considerations : choosing between genuine historical alternatives -- The question of gospel genre : did Mark create the genre? -- John and the apocryphal gospels : was John the first apocryphal gospel? -- The problem of faith and history : common to both John and the synoptics, and peculiar to neither -- When did the gospels become Scripture? What did their authors intend and their readers assume? -- Four gospels and the canonical approach to exegesis : should their being together in the New Testament make a difference in their interpretation? -- Toward a canonical reading of the fourth gospel : canonical readings from Clement of Alexandria through Abraham Lincoln to Rudolf Bultmann and C.H. Dodd. xvi, 286 pages ;23 cm

Book Details

Author

Smith, D. Moody

Place Published

City

Columbia, S.C.

Publication Subjects

Bible.--John--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Call No.

BS2615.52.S65 2008

ISBN

9781570037634, 1570037639

LCCN

2008024061

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-267) and indexes. Carrier type: volumencrdacarrier Media type: unmediatednrdamedia Date: [2008] Publication Info: {copy}2008