Stan Harstine

Reading John through Johannine Lenses (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reading John through Johannine Lenses demonstrates that the model an interpreter chooses for examining the Gospel of John significantly impacts the resulting interpretation. The Fourth Evangelist uses key words in the prologue in order to guide the reader toward key moments in the gospel. Stan Harstine shows how four words- life, word, receive, and believe- converge at transition points in John 5, 12, and 17. Their close relationship is not random; rather, it guides the reader to recall what the Gospel has presented in the preceding section, providing a road map for understanding the narrative. By using interpretive models from both diachronic and synchronic methodologies, Harstine's comparison of traditional historical methods with more recent narrative and rhetorical methods demonstrates the wide disparity of results from prior approaches, thus accentuating the importance of reading the Fourth Gospel through the lenses it provides its readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978712942
• Artikelnr.: 63030907

Autorenporträt

Stan Harstine is professor of religion at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Identifying Johannine Lenses in The Prologue
Chapter 2: Reading John with Two Thematic Lenses
Chapter 3: Viewing John 5 Through Assorted Lenses
Chapter 4: Viewing John 12 Through Assorted Lenses
Chapter 5: Viewing John 17 Through Assorted Lenses
Chapter 6: Closing Observations