Douglas Estes,Ruth Sheridan's How John Works: Storytelling in the Fourth Gospel (Resources PDF

By Douglas Estes,Ruth Sheridan

Essential lecture room source for brand new testomony courses

In this ebook, a bunch of overseas students cross intimately to give an explanation for how the writer of the Gospel of John makes use of a number of narrative thoughts to most sensible inform his tale. greater than a observation, this e-book bargains a glimpse on the means an historical writer created and used narrative beneficial properties reminiscent of style, personality, sort, persuasion, or even time and house to form a dramatic tale of the lifetime of Jesus.

Features:

  • An advent to the Fourth Gospel via its narrative gains and dynamics
  • Fifteen positive aspects of tale layout that contain the Gospel of John
  • Short, unique essays approximately how John works that may be used as beginning issues for the learn of different Gospels/texts

Douglas Estes is Assistant Professor of recent testomony and useful Theology and the Director of the DMin application at South University-Columbia. He has written or edited six books, together with The Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel (Brill) and The Questions of Jesus in John (Brill).

Ruth Sheridan is a examine fellow at CSU Australia. She has released a variety of articles at the ebook of John in peer reviewed journals, together with the Journal of Biblical Literature, Biblical Interpretation, and the Irish Theological Quarterly.

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