A Textual Problem and a Gospel’s Purpose: A Reflection on Current Johannine Studies
The first ending of the Fourth Gospel (John 20:31) presents an apparently small textual problem that reveals a larger set of issues about the aim of the gospel. This article reviews contemporary scholarship on the gospel and argues that the ambiguity of the ending reflected in the textual tradition...
| Subtitles: | Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Toronto School of Theology, [Part 1] |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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School
[2020]
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| In: |
Toronto journal of theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 150-158 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Fourth Gospel
B Recent Scholarship B rereading B Text Criticism B Ambiguity |
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| Summary: | The first ending of the Fourth Gospel (John 20:31) presents an apparently small textual problem that reveals a larger set of issues about the aim of the gospel. This article reviews contemporary scholarship on the gospel and argues that the ambiguity of the ending reflected in the textual tradition reflects the gospel’s general technique to add layers of significance to inherited material. |
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| ISSN: | 1918-6371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/tjt-2020-0077 |