John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel by Foster-Whiddon, Eric

John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004740532)

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John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel by Foster-Whiddon, Eric

John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel

$118.00
John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel by Foster-Whiddon, Eric

John as Divine Romance: Reading the Fourth Gospel with the Ancient Novel

$118.00
Format: Hardcover
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Why does the Gospel of John tell its story of Jesus the way that it does? Informed by semiotic theory, Eric Foster-Whiddon reads the Fourth Gospel in comparison with the Greek novel Callirhoe, observing how recognition, beauty, travel, and love function in both narratives as intertextual frames that pressure the reader to infer meaning. Analysis of these intertextual frames informs a hypothetical recovery of the cultural encyclopedia from which authors and (more importantly for this study) readers in first-century western Asia Minor would draw when composing or interpreting a story like the Gospel of John or Callirhoe.

Author: Eric Foster-Whiddon
ISBN-10: 9004740538
ISBN-13: 9789004740532
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2026
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.56d
By Eric Foster-Whiddon
By Eric Foster-Whiddon
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Eric Foster-Whiddon (Ph.D., St Andrews) is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in Ministry at Tabor College. He researches the New Testament and early Christian writings in their ancient philosophical and literary contexts.

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