The prologue of the Gospel of John
Subtitle: its literary, theological, and philosophical contexts : papers read at the Colloquium Ioanneum 2013
By: edited by Jan G. van der Watt, R. Alan Culpepper, and Udo Schnelle
Contributors: Colloquium Ioanneum (1st : 2013 : Patmos, Greece)
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 359; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 359.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9783161547713
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Johannesproloog; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes 11 contributions in English, and 3 in German.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Confronting the Challenges of the Prologue : --; title: The prologue as theological prolegomenon to the gospel of John  -- R. Alan Culpepper; title: Really a prologue?  -- John Ashton; title: The significance of the prologue for understanding John's soteriology  -- William R. G. Loader; title: John 1:1, a "riddle"? : grammar and syntax considered  -- Jan van der Watt; title: (Not) seeing God in the prologue and body of John's gospel  -- Catrin H. Williams; title: John (the Baptist) as a character in the fourth gospel : the narrative strategy of a witness disappearing  -- Ruben Zimmermann; title: Eine Gemeinschaft von "Zeugen" (von Joh 1:7, 15 bis 3 Joh 12) : Beobachtungen zur Gnese des Corpus Iohanneum auf der Basis des Prologs  -- Michael Theobald; title: The Logos-concept and dramatic irony in the Johannine prologue and narrative  -- Christos Karakolis -- Part 2.; title: Reading the Language and Concepts of the Prologue in Their Philosophical Context : --; title: Philosophische Interpretation des Johannesevangeliums : Voraussetzungen, Methoden und Perspektiven  -- Udo Schnelle; title: Between Torah and Stoa : how could readers have understood the Johannine Logos?  -- Jörg Frey; title: "Spirit" ("pneuma") in Grego-Roman philosophy and the gospel of John  -- Craig R. Koester; title: Confounding foes and counseling friends : "parrēsia" in the fourth gospel and Greco-Roman philosophy  -- George L. Parsenios; title: "Light" ("phōs") : the philosophical content of the term and the gospel of John  -- Marianne Meye Thompson; title: "Zeichen" ("semeĩon") : philosophischer Inhalt und Gebrauch des Begriffs im Johannesevangelium -- Jean Zumstein