John's Use of Ezekiel: Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1451490313 ISBN 13: 9781451490312

Verlag: Augsburg Fortress, 2015

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Reseña del editor

Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John's narrative in contrast to the accounts in the Synoptic Gospels. Brian Neil Peterson now offers a remarkable explanation for some of the most unusual features of the Fourth Gospel, including the exalted language of the Johannine prologue; the focus upon Jesus as Word; the imagery of light and darkness, of glory and "tabernacling"; the role-and rejection-of prophecy; the early placement of Jesus' "cleansing" of the temple and his relation to it; the emphasis on "signs" confirming Jesus' identity; and the prominence ofJesus' "I Am" sayings. Peterson finds important connections with motifs, themes, and even the macrostructure of the book of Ezekiel at just the points of John's divergence from the synoptic narrative. His examination of events and sequence in the Fourth Gospel produces a novel understanding of John as steeped in the theology of Ezekiel-and of the Johannine Christ as the fulfillment of the vision of Ezekiel.

Biografía del autor

Brian Neil Peterson is assistant professor in Old Testament at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and carries out archaeological work in Israel during the summers. He is the author of Ezekiel in Context (2012) and The Authors of the Deuteronomistic History (Fortress Press, 2014).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Augsburg Fortress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1451490313
• ISBN 13: 9781451490312
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Peterson Brian Neil