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Speaking of Jesus : essays on biblical language, gospel narrative, and the historical Jesus

Title
Speaking of Jesus : essays on biblical language, gospel narrative, and the historical Jesus / Willem S. Vorster ; edited by J. Eugene Botha.
Author
Vorster, W. S.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, ©1999.

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Additional Authors
Botha, J. Eugene.
Description
xxx, 521 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
"This volume presents a selection of essays by the late Willem Vorster, one of the most prominent New Testament scholars to have emerged from South Africa. An introductory essay by the editor explains Vorster's contribution to New Testament scholarship in general and to South African New Testament scholarship in particular."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; v. 92
Uniform Title
Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 92.
Subject
  • Jésus-Christ > Historicité
  • Vorster, Willem S
  • Jesus Christus
  • Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Bible
  • Bibel
  • New Testament. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Bible. > Critique, interprétation, etc
  • Geschichtlichkeit
  • Exegese
  • Evangeliën
  • Historiciteit
  • Literaire structuur
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-515) and indexes.
Contents
Biblical language. The function of metaphorical and apocalyptic language about the unobservable in the teaching of Jesus -- Bilingualism and the Greek of the New Testament: Semitic interference in the Gospel of Mark -- In what sense is the Louw/Nida Dictionary authoritative? -- New Testament interpretation. So many men, so many minds: reading the New Testament in a postmodern situation -- Through the eyes of a historian -- The religio-historical context of the resurrection of Jesus and resurrection faith in the New Testament -- Stoics and early Christians on blessedness -- Kerygma/history and the gospel genre -- The structure of Matthew 13 -- The function of the use of the Old Testament in Mark -- Meaning and reference: the Parables of Jesus in Mark 4 -- The growth and making of John 21 -- 'Genre' and the Revelation of John: a study in text, context and intertext -- The annunciation of the birth of Jesus in the Protevangelium of James -- 1 Enoch and the Jewish literary setting of the New Testament: a study in text types -- Historical Jesus. Jesus the Galilean -- Jesus: eschatological prophet and/or wisdom teacher? -- The relevance of Jesus research for the 'new' South Africa -- Redaction, contextualization and the sayings of Jesus -- Literary analysis. A reader-response approach to Matthew 24:3-28 -- The reader in the text: narrative material -- Reader-response, redescription, and reference: 'you are the man' (2 Sam. 12:7) -- Literary reflections on Mark 13:5-37: a narrated speech of Jesus -- Characterization of Peter in the Gospel of Mark -- The New Testament and narratology -- Intertextuality. The Protevangelium of James and intertextuality -- The production of the Gospel of Mark: an essay on intertextuality -- Intertextuality and Redaktionsgeschichte.
ISBN
  • 9004107797
  • 9789004107793
LCCN
98034823
OCLC
  • ocm39498888
  • 39498888
  • SCSB-573562
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library