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The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels

Name: The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels
Price: 148.55 GBP
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Author: Ahearne-kroll
ISBN: 9780190887452

by Ahearne-kroll

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632 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
17.1 x 24.8 x 6.9 cm

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For scholars and students of biblical studies

Tackles complex issues in Synoptic Gospel analysis

You will gain deeper insights into Gospel relations

The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels offers a fresh perspective on Gospel studies through diverse essays.

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The Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels presents essays that push the field beyond the Synoptic Problem and theological themes that ignore the particularities of each Gospel. The first section, "The Problem and Nature of the Synoptics," explores some of the traditional approaches of literary dependence, but primarily engages with alternative ways to understand Synoptic relations and the nature of each Gospel. Interesting questions are raised in these essays regarding the tools used to evaluate literary dependence beyond those of traditional source criticism and redaction criticism (such as performance, orality, rhetoric, ancient publication, literary structures, manuscript variety, and use by non-canonical literature). The second section, "Particular Features in Comparison," treats a variety of historical, literary, and cultural phenomena important to the study of these Gospels (such as gender, violence, power, body, history, sacred space, healing, food, gospel, suffering, sectarianism, itineracy, women, wealth). These essays indirectly reshape traditional theological themes like salvation, Christology, and discipleship, grounding them in the cultural dynamics of the period. The two main sections simultaneously express the current state of the field and push the field forward in unexplored directions.