In The Branches of the Gospel of John, Keefer presents a new paradigm for understanding the role of history of interpretation in New Testament studies, with a focus on the Gospel of John. Drawing largely from the work of Hans Robert Jauss, he presents history of interpretation a…
"A Michael Glazier book." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Are the Thomas references in the Gospel of John, the Thomas compositions, and the early Thomas traditions in northwestern and southern India purely legendary as biblical scholars have assumed or do they preserve unexamined historical traditions intermittently as the Thomas Chris…
"The central aim of this book is to propose two sets of indicators. One is related to deciding when water imagery in the Johannine literature represents the Spirit. The other is related to determining whether or not instance of water imagery has a symbolic level of meaning inste…
"The central aim of this book is to propose two sets of indicators. One is related to deciding when water imagery in the Johannine literature represents the Spirit. The other is related to determining whether or not instance of water imagery has a symbolic level of meaning inste…
This monograph demonstrates that the Fourth Gospel is a detailed, sequentially organized reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains John's modifications of the synoptic material, relocations thereof, additions to it, …
"This book defends the claims of historical-critical research into the New Testament as necessary for theological interpretation." "Presenting an interdisciplinary study about the nature of theological language, this book considers the modern debate in theological hermeneutics b…
"This book defends the claims of historical-critical research into the New Testament as necessary for theological interpretation." "Presenting an interdisciplinary study about the nature of theological language, this book considers the modern debate in theological hermeneutics b…
Johannine Literature offers some of the most beautiful, majestic, and profound theology contained within the entire biblical text. Within its works can be found the highest Christology, the capstone of eschatology, and the heartbreaking struggles of a community committed to Chri…