The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the literacy of Jesus /
Although consistently overlooked or dismissed, John 8.6, 8 in the Pericope Adulterae is the only place in canonical or non-canonical Jesus tradition that portrays Jesus as writing. After establishing that John 8.6, 8 is indeed a claim that Jesus could write, this book offers a new interpretation and...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
Series:
New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents
38.
New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents Online, ISBN: 9789004411050.
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Call Number: BS2615.52 .K445 2009
| Summary: | Although consistently overlooked or dismissed, John 8.6, 8 in the Pericope Adulterae is the only place in canonical or non-canonical Jesus tradition that portrays Jesus as writing. After establishing that John 8.6, 8 is indeed a claim that Jesus could write, this book offers a new interpretation and transmission history of the Pericope Adulterae . Not only did the pericope's interpolator place the story in John's Gospel in order to highlight the claim that Jesus could write, but he did so at John 7.53-8.11 as a result of carefully reading the Johannine narrative. The final chapter of the book proposes a plausible socio-historical context for the insertion of the story. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047440192 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |