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Her testimony is true : women as witnesses according to John / Robert Gordon Maccini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maccini, Robert Gordon, author.
- Series:
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 125.
- Library of New Testament studies.
- Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 125
- Library of New Testament studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witness bearing (Christianity).
- Witnesses.
- Women in the Bible.
- Bible. John--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1996]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Her Testimony is True, the Gospel of John is analysed as a rhetorical work that uses the metaphor of a trial in order to persuade readers that the Messiah is Jesus. John's presentation of women as witnesses in that trial is examined within the framework of Jewish law and custom regarding women as witnesses. Maccini concludes that the role of the women as witnesses follows no stereotypical pattern; that the women as witnesses, like the men, are treated as individuals, not as a class; and that in no case do any of the women bear witness in a way that breaches Jewish law and the custom of the
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2; THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AS TRIAL; Chapter 3; WOMEN AS WITNESSES IN BIBLICAL CULTURE; Chapter 4; THE MOTHER OF JESUS WAS THERE; Chapter 5; A SAMARITAN WOMAN CAME TO DRAW WATER; Chapter 6; THE SISTERS SENT WORD TO JESUS; Chapter 7; MARTHA SERVED...MARY POURED; Chapter 8; STANDING NEAR THE CROSS; Chapter 9; MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE TOMB; Chapter 10; EXCURSUS; Chapter 11; HER TESTIMONY is TRUE; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-263) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-20116-X
- 9786613201164
- 0-567-61456-5
- OCLC:
- 741690047
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