Life in its Fullness According to the Gospel of John
The importance of the theme of ‘life’ (Greek: zōē) for the Fourth Evangelist is obvious from a simple count of the appearances of the expression in the Gospel of John.¹ The word appears 135 times in the New Testament, and 36 of those occurrences are found in the Gospel of John. If we add the theolog...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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| In: |
Fullness of Life and Justice for All
Year: 2020, Pages: 3-10 |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The importance of the theme of ‘life’ (Greek: zōē) for the Fourth Evangelist is obvious from a simple count of the appearances of the expression in the Gospel of John.¹ The word appears 135 times in the New Testament, and 36 of those occurrences are found in the Gospel of John. If we add the theologically linked later Letters of John (1, 2, and 3 John), and the more doubtfully Johannine Book of Revelation the number increases to sixty-six (the Letters use the expression thirteen times and Revelation seventeen times). Thus, almost half the number of the appearances of the... |
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| ISBN: | 1925679438 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fullness of Life and Justice for All
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv16t6ms2.4 |