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Ausgabe:

Mai/2023

Spalte:

470-472

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Tops, Thomas

Titel/Untertitel:

Paroimia and Parrēsia in the Gospel of John. A Historical-Hermeneutical Study.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2022. XVIII, 497 S. = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe, 565. Kart. EUR 104,00. ISBN 9783161611025.

Rezensent:

Cornelis Bennema

This revised version of Thomas Tops’ doctoral dissertation provides a historical-hermeneutical analysis of paroimia and parrēsia in John’s Gospel. In Ch 1, on methodology, T. exposes the inability of scholarship to dismantle or transform the metaphysical framework of historical objectivism, where the subject-object distinction situates the historian outside history. Building on Nietzsche and Gadamer, T. proposes a healthier form of historicism where (i) one should study history from within one’s historical horizon; and (ii) the historical horizon of the historian fuses with the historical horizon of the text. Oddly, T. has not interacted with A. Thiselton’s The Two Horizons (1980) and New Horizons in Hermeneutics (1992), which also draw on Gadamer’s fusion of ...


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