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Why John wrote a gospel
Jesus -- memory -- history
By Thatcher, Tom
- ISBN
- 978-0-66422-905-4
- Publisher
- Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 16, 2006
If the ancient audience of the gospel of John was 80 percent illiterate, why did John write a gospel? Why didn't the author of this collection of narrative remembrances of Jesus simply allow those recollections to continue to circulate orally? Drawing on Maurice Halbwachs's social memory theory as well as folklore theory, Thatcher, who teaches at Cincinnati Christian University, answers these and other q...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
