Free Download John and the Others: Jewish Relations, Christian Origins, and the Sectarian Hermeneutic by Andrew J. Byers
English | September 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1481315900 | True EPUB/PDF | 255 pages | 1.9/11.5 MB
The Johannine literature has inspired the Church’s christological creeds, prompted its Trinitarian formulations, and resourced its ecumenical and social movements. However, while confessional readers find in these texts a divine love for "the world," biblical scholars often detect a dangerous program of harsh polemics arrayed against "the other." In this frame, the Johannine writings are products of an anti-society with its own anti-language articulating a worldview that is anti-ecclesiastical, anti-hierarchical, and, more seriously, anti-Jewish and even anti-Semitic. In New Testament studies, the prefix "anti-" has become almost Johannine.