A Commentary on the Letters of John: An Intra-Jewish Approach - Brossura

Olsson, Birger

 
9781608997749: A Commentary on the Letters of John: An Intra-Jewish Approach
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ISBN 10: 160899774X ISBN 13: 9781608997749
Casa editrice: Pickwick Publications, 2013

Sinossi

The long history of interpretation of the three Johannine letters has been largely characterized, at least since Irenaeus in the late second century, by the assumption that the Elder was addressing the Gnostic heresy. In recent years, particularly with the work of Raymond Brown, attention has been focused on the internal schism within the Johannine (or Beloved Disciple's) community, thus taking the first epistle as a corrective to secessionists' misguided attempts to read the Gospel of John in an "advanced" spiritualizing manner. Birger Olsson returns to a less common perspective, one that views the crisis facing the Elder as a wholly "intra-Jewish" problem. The Johannine community comprised Jewish believers who regarded Jesus as the long-promised Messiah of Israel, but at some point in the community's life, under the leadership of one Diotrephes, some members of the community chose to reject this conviction and to entice other members to do likewise. Olsson anchors his thoroughgoing interpretation of the three letters in this conflict among Jewish Christians over the nature of the Messiah and the renewal of Israel's ancient covenant. Among other things, this implies that the letters were written in reverse order of their numbering.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Birger Olsson is Professor Emeritus at Lund University in Sweden. He is the author of numerous works on text-linguistic analysis and on the Johannine literature, including Structure and Meaning in the Fourth Gospel: A Text-Linguistic Analysis of John 2:1-11 and 4:1-42 (1974). The current volume was originally published in Swedish as part of the Kommentar till Nya Testamentet, for which Olsson also wrote the volume on 1 Peter.

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Editore
Pickwick Publications
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
160899774X
ISBN 13 
9781608997749
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
382
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ISBN 10:  1498257232 ISBN 13:  9781498257237
Casa editrice: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013
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