Imaginative Love in John

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09716-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

This study examines love in John's Gospel. It attempts to answer the question in what way love in the Johannine Gospel receives its narratively-imaginative stature. John's Gospel develops a love story which is different from any other narrative.
Much attention is given to the cultural contextualisation as well as to the narrative and imaginative textualisations of the various love relationships.
In this, Jesus' relationship with his beloved disciple plays a central role. The study concludes that all other love relationships — the relationship of Jesus with his father, mother, brothers and sisters, with John the Baptist, with Peter and the other disciples, with particular women and men — derive their colour and content from this specific relationship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Sjef van Tilborg, Th.D. (1972) in Biblical Studies, University of Nijmegen, is lecturer in the department of literary-historical theology at the same university. He has published on subjects of literary theory, on the Synoptics and on John.