TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rogan, Wil
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Purity in the Gospel of John: early Jewish tradition, christology, and ethics
T3  - Library of New Testament studies 679
ET  - 1st ed
PB  - T&T Clark
CY  - London
KW  - Bible. John
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Biblical studies & exegesis
AB  - Wil Rogan argues that, contrary to twentieth-century interpretation, the Fourth Gospel did not replace purity with faith in Jesus. Instead, as with other early Jewish writings, its discourse about purity functions as a way to make sense of life before God in the world. He suggests that John's Gospel employs biblical and early Jewish traditions of purity associated with divine revelation and Israel's restoration to narrate how God's people are prepared for the coming of Jesus and enabled by him to have life with God characterized by love.    After evaluating different theories of purity for the interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, Rogan explores John the Baptist as an agent of ritual purification, Jesus as the agent of moral purification, and the disciples of Jesus as ones who are (or are not) made morally pure by Jesus. While purity is not one of the Fourth Gospel's primary focuses, Rogan stresses that the concept figures into some of its most significant claims about Christology, the doctrine of salvation, and ethics. Through purity, the Fourth Gospel guards continuity with the past while placing surprising conditions on participation in Israel's future
SN  - 9780567708687
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567708687?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567708687
DO  - 10.5040/9780567708687?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
DO  - 10.5040/9780567708687
LA  - English
N1  - Wil Rogan
ID  - 1847886639
ER  -