Race in John's Gospel: Toward an Ethnos-Conscious Approach (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781978706187)

Vendor: Andrew Benko
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Race in John's Gospel: Toward an Ethnos-Conscious Approach

$120.00

Race in John's Gospel: Toward an Ethnos-Conscious Approach

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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Directly or indirectly, race makes many appearances in the Fourth Gospel. What is the meaning of all this attention to ethnic labels? Race in John's Gospel investigates how John reflects the racialized ideas current in its milieu, challenging some and adapting others. Ultimately, John dismisses race as valid grounds for prejudice or discrimination, devaluing the very criteria on which race is based. The cumulative effect of this rhetoric is to undermine the category itself, exposing earthly race as irrelevant and illusory. However, John's anthropology is layered, and looks beyond this unimportant earthly level. Above it, John constructs a heavenly level of racial identity, based on one's descent from either God or the devil.

Author: Andrew Benko
ISBN-10: 1978706189
ISBN-13: 9781978706187
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2019
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
By Andrew Benko
By Andrew Benko
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Andrew Benko taught as an adjunct professor of biblical studies at Texas Christian University. He is an Episcopal priest.

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