@book{van_der_watt_prologue_2016, location = {Tübingen}, title = {The Prologue of the Gospel of John: Its Literary, Theological, and Philosophical Contexts. Papers Read at the Colloquium Ioanneum 2013}, isbn = {9783161547713 N1 - Accession Number: {NTA}0000082772; Publisher Information: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2016.; Physical Description: xxii and 342 pp.: 5 tables. Bibliography. Indexed.; Note: Additional Publication Information: {EUROS} 134; {LCCN}: 2016389370; Issued by {ATLA}: 20190715; Publication Type: book; Abstract Number: {NTA}60-2016-3}, series = {Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament359}, shorttitle = {The Prologue of the Gospel of John}, abstract = {The fourteen papers in this volume examine the Prologue of the Gospel of John (1:1-18), addressing questions of its origin and background, structure, use of Greek philosophical terms, and relation to the rest of the Gospel. After the editors' twelve-page foreword, eight articles consider the challenges of the Prologue: Culpepper on the Prologue as theological prolegomenon to the Gospel of John; J. Ashton on whether Jn 1:1-18 is really a prologue; W. R. G. Loader on the significance of the Prologue for understanding John's soteriology; van der Watt on the grammar and syntax of Jn 1:1; C. H. Williams on (not) seeing God in the Prologue and body of John's Gospel; R. Zimmermann on John the Baptist as a character in the Fourth Gospel--the narrative strategy of a witness disappearing; M. Theobald on the genesis of the Corpus Iohanneum on the basis of the Prologue; and C.Karakolis on the Logos-concept and dramatic irony in the Johannine Prologue and narrative. Then six articles discuss the language and concepts of the Prologue in their philosophical context: Schnelle on a philosophical interpretation of the Gospel of John--presuppositions, methods, and perspectives; J. Frey on how readers could have understood the Johannine Logos in view of the multivalence of the term; C. R. Koester on "spirit" (pneuma) in Greco-Roman philosophy and the Gospel of John; G. L. Parsenios on parrēsia in the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman philosophy; M. M. Thompson on the philosophical content of the term "light" (phōs) and the Gospel of John; and J. Zumstein on the philosophical content and use of the term "sign" (sēmeion) in the Gospel of John. Abstract Number: {NTA}60-2016-3}, pagetotal = {xxii, 342}, publisher = {Mohr Siebeck}, author = {Van der Watt, Jan G. and Culpepper, R. Alan and Schnelle, Udo}, date = {2016}, keywords = {Gospels-Acts.}, }