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This study examines love in John's Gospel. It attempts to answer the question in what way love in the Johannine Gospel receives its narratively-imaginative stature. John's Gospel develops a love story which is different from any other narrative.
Much attention is given to the cultural contextualisation as well as to the narrative and imaginative textualisations of the various love relationships.
In this, Jesus' relationship with his beloved disciple plays a central role. The study concludes that all other love relationships — the relationship of Jesus with his father, mother, brothers and sisters, with John the Baptist, with Peter and the other disciples, with particular women and men — derive their colour and content from this specific relationship.
Much attention is given to the cultural contextualisation as well as to the narrative and imaginative textualisations of the various love relationships.
In this, Jesus' relationship with his beloved disciple plays a central role. The study concludes that all other love relationships — the relationship of Jesus with his father, mother, brothers and sisters, with John the Baptist, with Peter and the other disciples, with particular women and men — derive their colour and content from this specific relationship.
Price: $189.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Biblical Interpretation Series
Publication Date:
01 February 1993
ISBN: 9789004097162
Format: Other
'...the author's most significant contribution here is to have furnished Greco-Roman parallels which deserve consideration in every Johannine commentary striving for completeness.'
Mark Kiley, Catholic Biblical Quaterly, 1995.
'...interesting and unusual book...'
D. Moody Smith, Journal of Theological Studies, 1995.
Mark Kiley, Catholic Biblical Quaterly, 1995.
'...interesting and unusual book...'
D. Moody Smith, Journal of Theological Studies, 1995.
Sjef van Tilborg, Th.D. (1972) in Biblical Studies, University of Nijmegen, is lecturer in the department of literary-historical theology at the same university. He has published on subjects of literary theory, on the Synoptics and on John.