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

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

Benko, Andrew

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1978706189
ISBN13: 9781978706187
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: Apr 8 2019
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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