TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheridan, Ruth
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - figure of Abraham in John 8: text and Intertext
ET  - First edition
PB  - T & T Clark
CY  - [London, England]
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Abraham (Biblical patriarch) in the New Testament
KW  - Christianity and antisemitism
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Biblical studies & exegesis
AB  - "This is the first volume to extensively explore the intersection between Johannine anti-Judaism and Abrahamic allusions, using the theoretical lens of poststructuralism and intertextuality theory. Ruth Sheridan's study yields new insights into how the metaphors of 'sin', 'slavery' and 'vision' are constructed in the text, producing an interpretation consistent with figurations of Abraham in Early Judaism as a paternal figure of vicarious merit. John 8.31-59 is often categorised in New Testament scholarship as one of the most polemical texts illustrating nascent Christianity's anti-Jewish trajectory, as Jesus debates with 'the Jews' about their reputed diabolic paternity, sidelining their own selfidentifications that are steeped in biblical traditions. Another defining feature of the text is its repeated reference to the figure of Abraham, displaying a condensed network of intertextual allusions to Abraham seen nowhere else in the Fourth Gospel. Sheridan seeks instead to rehabilitate the Jewish voice of the text, working with the narrative intertext of 'the Jews'' self-characterisation as the 'seed of Abraham' to counteract particular pejorative readings of John 8 found in the secondary literature."--
SN  - 0567238067
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567661999?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567661999
DO  - 10.5040/9780567661999?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
DO  - 10.5040/9780567661999
LA  - English
N1  - Ruth Sheridan
ID  - 1694746038
ER  -