The Conceptual Worlds of the Fourth Gospel: Intertextuality and Early Reception
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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.
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- Examines the meaning of the Gospels.
- Offers a well-organized review that may illuminate the Gospel.
- Provides a unique portrait of Jesus and his ministry.
The book fills a lacuna in Johannine scholarship. While interpreters often one-sidedly follow a certain contextualization, Jewish or Greco-Roman, the authors present the whole set of possible backgrounds, many of which are not mutually exclusive. The sober discussion helps to go beyond former limitations and to arrive at a synthetic understanding of John’s various reading contexts.
—Jörg Frey, University of Zurich
The Fourth Gospel, with compelling drama, complex imagery, scriptural citations and allusions, and engagement with serious conceptual issues, invites comparison with ancient literary sources, both Jewish and Greek. Puskas and Robbins offer a well-organized review of comparative material that may illuminate the Gospel. Well-documented and offering a probing critical framework, Conceptual Worlds offers an extremely useful tool for students of John both new and old.
—Harold W. Attridge, Yale Divinity School
While the Fourth Gospel provides a unique portrait of Jesus and his ministry, its ideas and vocabulary did not develop in a vacuum. Rather, the milieu in which the Gospel developed is rich and complex. Puskas and Robbins have generated a substantive and compelling volume that explores the Gospel in light of its potential influences and conversation partners in the ancient world. This text will prove useful for advanced courses on the Fourth Gospel.
—Christopher W. Skinner, Loyola University Chicago
- Title: The Conceptual Worlds of the Fourth Gospel: Intertextuality and Early Reception
- Authors: Charles B. Puskas, C. Michael Robbins
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 394
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781532681714, 1532681712, 9781532681721, 1532681720, 1532681739, 9781532681738
- Resource ID: LLS:CNCPTLWRLDRCPTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
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