Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Band 314. This item is unavailable.Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Band 314

This volume represents the most thorough study of characters and characterization in the Fourth Gospel heretofore published. Building on several different narrative approaches, the contributors assembled here offer sixty-two essays related to characters and group characters in John. Among these are detailed studies presenting fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (e.g., Peter, Mary Magdalene, etc.), as well as original studies of characters who have never been the focus of narrative analysis before, characters often glossed over in commentaries as insignificant (e.g., the boy with the loaves and fish, the parents of the man born blind, etc.). Clearly, characters in John stand in the shadow of the protagonist -- Jesus. In this volume, however, they step fully into the light. Thus illuminated, it becomes clear how complex and nuanced many of them are.

Geboren 1968; 1999 Promotion zum Dr. theol. an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; 1999 Ordination zum Pfarrer der Ev. Landeskirche in Baden; 2003 Habilitation an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Professor für Neues Testament an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Mitbegründer des Forschungszentrums „Ethik in Antike und Christentum" (e/αc) und der Zeitschrift „Journal for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity" (JEAC); Research Associate im Departement of Old and New Testament Studies an der University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Südafrika.

Born 1959; 1992 DTh; 2004 PhD in Greek (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa); Professor of New Testament at the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein (South Africa).

Born 1966; PhD in Biblical Studies from the University of Sheffield/UK; presently Professor of New Testament at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, USA.