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The Judaean poor and the Fourth Gospel / Timothy J.M. Ling.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ; 136.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511242229
  • 0511242220
  • 0511240759
  • 9780511240751
  • 0511241275
  • 9780511241277
  • 0511241771
  • 9780511241772
  • 9780511488047
  • 0511488041
  • 9780521857222
  • 0521857228
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Judaean poor and the Fourth Gospel.DDC classification:
  • 226.5/067 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2615.52 .L56 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Problem of incommensurability -- Social structures and religious aspirations -- "Poor" -- Transcending Johannine sectarianism -- The New Testament world -- Honour, public in nature -- Honour, Mediterranean and pivotal -- Honour, rooted in gender distinctions -- Honour, essentially agonistic -- Judaea and 'virtuoso religion' -- Religious actor -- Judaean social world -- Judaean "poor" -- Social approaches to the "poor" -- Social world of the ptōchoi -- John's social world -- Johannine sectarianism -- Johannine virtuosity.
Summary: Who were the 'poor' of the Gospel of John? Ling argues that they are best understood in the context of the ascetic, 'alternative' religious groups that flourished in first-century Judaea. In his view this Judaean focus rather than an early Christian 'sectarian' agenda accounts for the distinctiveness of John's text.
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kent, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and indexes.

Introduction -- Problem of incommensurability -- Social structures and religious aspirations -- "Poor" -- Transcending Johannine sectarianism -- The New Testament world -- Honour, public in nature -- Honour, Mediterranean and pivotal -- Honour, rooted in gender distinctions -- Honour, essentially agonistic -- Judaea and 'virtuoso religion' -- Religious actor -- Judaean social world -- Judaean "poor" -- Social approaches to the "poor" -- Social world of the ptōchoi -- John's social world -- Johannine sectarianism -- Johannine virtuosity.

Who were the 'poor' of the Gospel of John? Ling argues that they are best understood in the context of the ascetic, 'alternative' religious groups that flourished in first-century Judaea. In his view this Judaean focus rather than an early Christian 'sectarian' agenda accounts for the distinctiveness of John's text.

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