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John and Philosophy

A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 9th Feb 2017
Dimensions: w 162mm h 241mm d 29mm
Weight: 756g
ISBN-10: 0198792506
ISBN-13: 9780198792505
Barcode No: 9780198792505
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John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics. It works through the gospel in narrative sequence providing a 'philosophical narrative reading'. In each section of the gospel Troels Engberg-Pedersen raises discusses philosophical questions. He compares John with Paul (in philosophy) and Mark (in narrative) to offer a new reading of the transmitted text of the Fourth Gospel. Of these two profiles, the narrative one is strongly influenced by the literary critical paradigm. Moreover, by attending carefully to a number of narratological features, one may come to see that the transmitted text in fact hangs together much more coherently than scholarship has been willing to see. The other profile is specifically philosophical. Scholarship has been well aware that the Fourth Gospel has what one might call a philosophical dimension. Engberg-Pedersen shows that throughout the Gospel contemporary Stoicism, works better to illuminate the text. This pertains to the basic cosmology (and cosmogony) that is reflected in the text, to the epistemology that underlies a central theme in it regarding different types of belief in Jesus, to the ethics that is introduced fairly late in the text when Jesus describes how the disciples should live once he has himself gone away from them, and more.

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This book is a mine of careful scholarship, interacting particularly with contemporary German commentators, and a product of commendably close reading ... The is written with passion and conviction. * David A. Lamb, Journal for the Study of the New Testament *