RT Review
T1 Engaging with C. H. Dodd on the Gospel of John: Sixty Years of Tradition and Interpretation. Edited by Tom Thatcher and Catrin H. Williams
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 65
IS 2
SP 689
OP 691
A1 Edwards, Ruth B.
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783734876
AB C. H. Dodd’s two major works on John, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel (1953) and Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel (1963), are rightly considered landmarks in the history of Johanninne scholarship. In this beautifully produced book fifteen scholars from Europe, the USA, and Australia reflect on Dodd's work in the light of more recent scholarship. This is no volume of adulatory ‘hero-worship’, but a genuine attempt to assess both the strengths and weaknesses of Dodd's scholarly contribution., The stimulating introduction (pp. 1–28) by Tom Thatcher, ‘The semeiotics of history’, is itself critical of Dodd for his lack of explicit methodology. Thatcher focuses on Dodd's view of the composition of John's Gospel, particularly his conviction that John drew on oral tradition.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flu106