The Shepherd Discourse of John 10 and its Context

by Edited by Johannes Beutler , Robert T. Fortna

• ISBN13: 9780521020602
• ISBN10: 0521020603
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume, which emerges from an SNTS seminar in 1985-1986, analyses one of the best-known, but also one of the most intriguing, of Jesus' discourses within the Fourth Gospel. Previous studies of the Shepherd Discourse have concentrated either on its historical setting in the life of Jesus (Simonis) or on the prehistory of its text (Bullmann and his school). The present study, consisting of essays written by an international team of specialists, adopts a more contextual approach. The Shepherd Discourse is here situated in the text of the Fourth Gospel, with particular emphasis on the preceding chapter and on the subsequent Passion narrative. The internal coherence of John 10 so becomes clearer, and it is seen that - in spite of its links with Gnostic ideas - the roots of the Discourse in Old Testament and Jewish texts about the shepherds of Israel become apparent.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations	viii
Introduction	1	(5)
Johannes Beutlere
Sankt Georgen
Robert T. Fortna
Open questions on John 10	6	(12)
Ulrich Busse
Der alttestamentlich-judische Hintergrund der Hirtenrede in Johannes 10	18	(15)
Johannes Beutler
The history of religions background of John 10	33	(20)
John D. Turner
Tradition, history and interpretation in John 10	53	(22)
John Painter
John 10 and its relationship to the Synoptic Gospels	75	(19)
M. Sabbe
A syntactical and narratological reading of John 10 in coherence with chapter 9	94	(22)
Jan A. Du Rand
Johannes 10 im Kontext des vierten Evangeliums	116	(19)
Hartwig Thyen
Notes	135	(34)
Index	169