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The Sheep of the Fold

The Audience and Origin of the Gospel of John [Hardback]

by Edward W. Klink

Author
Edward W. Klink
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
August 2007

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The last generation of gospel scholarship has considered the reconstruction and analysis of the audience behind the gospels as paradigmatic. The key hermeneutical template for reading the gospels has been the quest for the community that each gospel represents. But this scholarly consensus has recently been receiving consensual criticism as the audience of the gospels is being reconsidered. Using as a test case one of the most entrenched gospels, Edward Klink explores the evidence for the audience behind the Gospel of John. This study challenges the current gospel paradigm by examining the community construct and its functional potential in early Christianity, the appropriation of a gospel text and J. L. Martyn's two-level reading of John, and the implied reader located within the narrative. The study concludes by proposing a more appropriate audience model for reading John, as well as some implications for the function of the gospel in early Christianity.