This book offers an analysis of the paraphrastic techniques which Nonnus employs for rendering St. Johnβs Gospel in Homerising verse. The study examines the poemβs dependence on ancient rhetorical theory, its aesthetics and its dialogue with theology
Rhetoric and Reference in the Fourth Gospel
β Scribed by Margaret Davies
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 419
- Series
- Library of New Testament Studies
- Category
- Library
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Eerdmans, 1969. β 381 p.<div class="bb-sep"></div>These in-depth studies on the Gospel of John, written by the man who describes himself as a 'conservative evangelical' demonstrate that the application of the critical method to an understanding of scripture need not rule out an acceptance of inspira
"Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them." Dennis R. MacDonald offers a provocative explanation of those scandalous words of Christ from the Fourth Gospelβan explanation that he argues would hardly have surprised some of the Gospel's early readers. John sounds themes tha
A more nuanced view of the Fourth Gospelβs media nature suggests a new and promising paradigm for assessing expansive and embedded uses of scripture in this work. The majority of studies exploring the Fourth Evangelistβs use of scripture to date have approached the Fourth Gospel as the product of a