The effort to get behind the fourth gospel is no mere literary-critical game. The value we place upon it is inseparable from the way in which we understand its origins. The true relation to the Gospel to the beginnings of Christianity remains unsettled question of New Testament scholarship. Barnabas Lindars discusses the attempts to identify continuous sources, among them the ""discourse source"" emphasized by Bultmann, and the ""signs source"" recently reconstructed by R. T. Fortna. A more promising approach, he thinks, lies in considering John's technique as a writer who builds upon the primitive tradition--first in the discourses, then when miracle stories are used in conjunction with discourse, then in extended narrative. This provides the vantage point for a survey of the Gospel as a whole, from which its unknown author emerges as essentially a preacher, who presents the authentic challenge of the message of Jesus in a work of immense creative skill and compelling theological power. Barnabas Lindars (1923-91), SSF, was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester.

Behind the Fourth Gospel (Studies in creative criticism)

LINDARS, Barnabas

Religion & Spirituality

S.P.C.K.

New Testament apologetic: The doctrinal significance of the Old Testament quotations

Christian Books & Bibles

S.C.M. Press

The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews (New Testament Theology)

Theology of the Letter to Hebrews (New Testament Theology)

The Letter to the Hebrews is of particular significance for the most important explanation of the sacrificial death of Christ contained in the New Testament. In this book, Barnabas Lindars explains the circumstances in which Hebrews was written, and expounds the writer's argument at length. At each stage of the survey, the writer's ideas are related to the main topics of New Testament theology. Special attention is paid to the rhetorical style of Hebrews, which marks it out as having been written in response to an urgent practical situation. The concluding chapters show the place of Hebrews in the context of the development of early Christianity, and indicate the lasting value of Hebrews for theology today.

Cambridge University Press

Words and Meanings

The editors of this volume have gathered a team of scholars to write a series of studies dealing with problems of meaning and interpretation of Old Testament words and ideas. The volume in is honour of Professor D. Winton Thomas, formerly Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University; its theme is one with which he has been much concerned and the contributors - colleagues, pupils and friends - mainly from Great Britain but also from other countries, offer a variety of meaning, of interpretation and of use, in the biblical text itself and in ancient translations and other writings. The studies thus take further the discussion of meaning and interpretation which is much in evidence today, while holding firmly to the understanding of words in the text itself. The Archbishop writes a forward, emphasising Professor Winton Thomas's contribution to the achievement of accuracy of understanding and to fostering a better appreciation of the need for a sound base to theological statements connected with biblical material.

Ackroyd, Peter R.

The editors have grouped the studies in this volume around the themes 'Christ and Spirit', two of the most controversial areas in current New Testament study, which are also the areas with which Professor Moule has been most concerned as editor, author and teacher. All the contributions are original and have been specifically commissioned from an impressive team of international scholars.

Christ and Spirit in the New Testament: Studies in Honour of Charles Francis Digby Moule

Smalley, Stephen S.

The Letter to the Hebrews is of particular significance for the most important explanation of the sacrificial death of Christ contained in the New Testament. In this book, Barnabas Lindars explains the circumstances in which Hebrews was written, and expounds the writer's argument at length. At each stage of the survey, the writer's ideas are related to the main topics of New Testament theology. Special attention is paid to the rhetorical style of Hebrews, which marks it out as having been written in response to an urgent practical situation. The concluding chapters show the place of Hebrews in the context of the development of early Christianity, and indicate the lasting value of Hebrews for theology today.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Yellow highlighter markings throughout. Chipped and worn to laminated boards. Boards are edge worn and curled. Previous owner bookplate to front paste-down end page.

The Gospel of John; (New century Bible)

Oliphants

New Century Bible Commentary the Gospel

Eerdmans, Wm B Pub Co

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Behind the Fourth Gospel (Studies in creative criticism)

New Testament apologetic: The doctrinal significance of the Old Testament quotations

The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews (New Testament Theology)

Words and Meanings

Christ and Spirit in the New Testament: Studies in Honour of Charles Francis Digby Moule

Words and Meanings

Christ and Spirit in the New Testament: Studies in Honour of Charles Francis Digby Moule

The Theology of the Letter to the Hebrews (New Testament Theology)

The Gospel of John; (New century Bible)

New Century Bible Commentary the Gospel