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How the Gospel of John interacted with the conventions of Jewish and Greco-Roman literature

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In recent decades New Testament scholarship has developed an increasing interest in how the Gospel of John interacts with literary conventions of genre and form in the ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman context. The present volume brings together leading scholars in the field in order to discuss the status quaestionis and to identify new exegetical frontiers. In the Fourth Gospel, genres and forms serve as vehicles of ideological and theological meaning. The contributions to this volume aim at demonstrating how awareness of ancient and modern genre theories and practices advances our understanding of the Fourth Gospel, both in terms of the text as a whole (gospel, ancient biography, drama, romance, etc.) and in terms of the various literary tiles that contribute to the Gospel´s genre mosaic.

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Frey, Jörg
Dr. Jörg Frey ist Professor für Neues Testament an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Zürich.

Zimmermann, Ruben
Prof. Dr. Ruben Zimmermann ist Professor für Neues Testament an der Ev.-theologischen Fakultät der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Becker, Eve-Marie
Dr. theol. Eve-Marie Becker is Professor for New Testament exegesis at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Larsen, Kasper Bro
Kasper Bro Larsen, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of New Testament at Aarhus University, Denmark.

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