Characterization in the Gospels (The Library of New Testament Studies) - Softcover

Rhoads, David; Syreeni, Kari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567043304 ISBN 13: 9780567043306

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2004

Synopsis

This volume examines characterization in the four Gospels and in the Sayings Gospel Q. Peter in Matthew, Lazarus in John, and Jesus as Son of Man in Q are examples of the characters studied. The general approach is narrative-critical. At the same time, each contribution takes special effort to widen the scope beyond the narrated world to include the text's ideological and real-life setting as well as its effective history. New ways of doing narrative criticism are thus proposed. The concluding essay by David Rhoads delineates the development and envisions the future of narrative criticism in Gospel studies.

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About the Authors

David Rhoads is Professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago.

Kari Syreeni is Professor Emeritus at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567043304
• ISBN 13: 9780567043306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304