Literary Eyewitnesses: The Appeal to an Eyewitness in John and Contemporaneous Literature

This essay supports the thesis that the Beloved Disciple is a purely literary character employed as a literary device of authentication recognisable during the late first and early second centuries CE. As evidence, three works are thoroughly compared with the Fourth Gospel in regard to their eyewitn...

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Main Author: Litwa, M. David 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2018]
In: New Testament studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 343-361
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B John / The beloved disciple / Witnesses / Literary characters / Dictys, Cretensis, Ephemeris belli Troiani / Antonius, Diogenes, De incredibilibus quae ultra Thulem insulam sunt / Philostratus, Flavius 160-245, Vita Apollonii
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Antonius Diogenes
B Fourth Gospel
B Beloved Disciple
B Dictys of Crete
B Myth
B literary conventions
B John
B Eyewitness
B History
B Philostratus
B Fiction
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