Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 819 g
Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 819 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-929144-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
How were the Johannine books of the New Testament received by second-century Christians and accorded scriptural status? Charles E. Hill offers a fresh and detailed examination of this question. He dismantles the long-held theory that the Fourth Gospel was generally avoided or resisted by orthodox Christians, while being treasured by various dissenting groups, throughout most of the second century. Integrating a wide range of literary and non-literary sources, this
book demonstrates the failure of several old stereotypes about the Johannine literature. It also collects the full evidence for the second-century Church's conception of these writings as a group: the Johannine books cannot be isolated from each other but must be recognized as a corpus.
Zielgruppe
New Testament (especially Johannine) scholars, students and historians of early Christianity and the history of the New Testament canon, theologians.
