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Text, Context and the Johannine Community: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Johannine Writings [PDF]
Tyndale Bulletin, 2012 1. The Rise and Fall of a Paradigm? The Johannine Community in Recent Scholarship 2. The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Development of Raymond Brown's Model of Community 3. Text and Context: The Contribution of Sociolinguistic Theories of Register 4. The Antilanguage Antisociety: The Contribution of Sociological Commentators 5.
David A. Lamb
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The Johannine prologue: A hermeneutical key to the community theme
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022 As John wrote to a community grappling with incarnating its communalistic values, he furnishes readers with remedies for addressing such sociocultural maladies.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest van Eck
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‘Humanhood’ in the Gospel of John
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This article is an attempt to explore the theme of ‘humanhood’ in the Fourth Gospel. The most important questions to be posed at the outset are the following: who is the model human presented in the gospel as per the Johannine community standards?
Johnson Thomaskutty
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The true vine and the branches: Exploring the community ideation in John 15:1–16:3
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 An exploration of the Johannine narrative reveals that John addresses the problem of the relational dimension of a believing community as one of its ‘authorial intentions’.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest Van Eck
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Building a united community: Reading the Johannine concept of unity through the eyes of an Akan
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 From the 1960s, African theologians sought to decolonise biblical scholarship, calling for a hermeneutical approach that pays attention to the African sociocultural context – inculturation.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest van Eck
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Ideological and Intertextual Relations Between the Targum Isaiah and the Gospel of John
Collectanea Theologica, 2023 In this article, the author asks whether there are ideological and intertextual connections between the Targum Isaiah and the Gospel of St. John, and whether the traditions contained in the targums could have influenced the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth
Mirosław Wróbel
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Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective
Acta Theologica, 2022 This article re-reads John 11:1-45 in light of post-normal times. It analyses aspects such as 4Ss, 3Cs, and 3Ts, in order to expound on the Johannine community situation and to understand the paradigmatic significance of John’s narrative artistry within
J. Thomaskutty
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Making the Focal Map of Johannine Studies: A Survey of Modern Scholarship
Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 2023 The most studied text the four gospels is the Gospel of John, which is also known as the Fourth Gospel. Academics have been prolific in their study of it, using many different methods and coming up with numerous questions and answers related to the text.
Bilal Patacı
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Solitude in the multitude: A Christological response to loneliness in the Akan community of God
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 The amphibious Akan concept of community manifests both individualistic and communalistic features. An analysis of the individualistic features reveals that the Akans grapple with incarnating their values, leaving many ‘children of God’ lonely.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest van Eck
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Did the Johannine Community Exist? [PDF]
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2020 This article challenges the historical existence of the ‘Johannine community’ – a hypothesized group of ancient churches sharing a distinctive theological outlook. Scholars posit such a community to explain the similarities of John to 1, 2 and 3 John as well as the epistles’ witness to a network of churches.
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