The pericope of the adulteress in contemporary research / edited by David Alan Black and Jacob N. Cerone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, David Alan, 1952- editor.

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 551.

Library of New Testament studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. John, VII, LIII-VIII, 11--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Adultery--Biblical teaching.

Adultery.

Physical Description:

xvii, 195 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016.

Summary:

The Library of New Testament Studies (LNTS) is a premier book series chat offers cutting-edge work for a readership of scholars, teachers in the field of New Testament studies, postgraduate students and advanced under-graduates. All the many and diverse aspects of New Testament study are represented and promoted, including innovative work from historical perspectives, studies using social-scientific and literary theory, and developing theological, cultural and contextual approaches. The Pericope of the Adulteress in Contemporary Research, The contributors to this volume (J.D. Punch, Jennifer Knust, Tommy Wasserman, Chris Keith, Maurice Robinson, and Larry Hurtado) re-examine the Pericope Adulterae (John 7.53-811) asking afresh the question of the paragraph's authenticity. Each contributor not only presents the reader with arguments for or against the pericope's authenticity but also with viable theories on how and why the earliest extant manuscripts omit the passage. Readers are encouraged to evaluate manuscript witnesses, scribal tendencies, patristic witnesses, and internal evidence to assess the plausibility of each contributor's proposal. Readers are presented with cutting-edge research on the pericope from both scholarly camps: those who argue for its originality, and those who regard it as a later scribal interpolation. In so doing, the volume brings readers face-to-face with the most recent evidence and arguments (several of which are made here for the first time, with new evidence brought to the table), allowing readers to engage in the controversy and weigh up the evidence for themselves. Book jacket.

Contents:

Piously offensive pericope adulterae / John David Punch

Strange case of the missing adulteress / Tommy Wasserman

"Taking away from": Patristic evidence and the ommision of the pericope adulterae from John's gospel / Jennifer Knust

Pericope adulterae: a theory of attentive insertion / Chris Keith

The pericope adulterae : a Johannine tapestry with double interlock / Maurice A. Robinson

Pericope adulterae: where from here? / Larry Hurtado.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pericope of the adulteress in contemporary research

ISBN:

9780567665799

0567665798

OCLC:

915249184