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Ausgabe:

November/2020

Spalte:

1082–1083

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Shin, Sookgoo

Titel/Untertitel:

Ethics in the Gospel of John. Discipleship as Moral Progress.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2018. XII, 241 S. = Biblical Interpretation Series, 168. Geb. EUR 115,50. ISBN 978-90-04-38741-6.

Rezensent:

Cornelis Bennema

This monograph is a revised version of Sookgoo Shin’s PhD dissertation, supervised by Prof. Judith Lieu at Cambridge. S.’s aim is to find ›the undergirding ethical dynamic that shapes John’s moral structure‹ (25).
Chapter 1: Introduction. The book starts with a survey of schol-arship on Johannine ethics, organized under four categories: (1.) law; (2.) backgrounds to John’s ethics; (3.) particular terms; (4.) liter-ary devices. However, I found these categories and how S. assigned the various studies to these categories somewhat confusing. For example, studies on imitation (which is an important concept for S.) turn up in categories 1 (7–8, n. 23), 3 (19–21) and 4 (22.24). Perhaps, a better organizing principle for studies on Johannine ethics would have been ...


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