The Sheep of the Fold: The Audience and Origin of the Gospel of John

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Cambridge University Press, 2 aug. 2007
The last generation of gospel scholarship has considered the reconstruction and analysis of the audience behind the gospels as paradigmatic. The key hermeneutical template for reading the gospels has been the quest for the community that each gospel represents. This scholarly consensus regarding the audience of the gospels has been reconsidered. Using as a test case one of the most entrenched gospels, Edward Klink explores the evidence for the audience behind the Gospel of John. This study challenges the prevailing gospel paradigm by examining the community construct and its functional potential in early Christianity, the appropriation of a gospel text and J. L. Martyn's two-level reading of John, and the implied reader located within the narrative. The study concludes by proposing a more appropriate audience model for reading John, as well as some implications for the function of the gospel in early Christianity.

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See Oscar Cullmann The Plurality of the Gospels as a Theological Problem
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Essay SBLSP 1979 pp 87100
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in Religious History JRH 11 1980 pp 20117 Dale Allison Was There a Lukan
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Brill 2000
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Pagina 106 - It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion...
Pagina 229 - But He spoke of the temple of His body. When therefore He was risen again from the dead, His disciples remembered, that He had said this, and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had said.
Pagina 106 - ... regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.
Pagina 126 - Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966).
Pagina 106 - The idea of a sociological organism moving calendrically through homogeneous, empty time is a precise analogue of the idea of the nation, which also is conceived as a solid community moving steadily down (or up) history.

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