Testimony in John's Gospel: The puzzle of 5:31 and 8:14
Testimony is a central theme in John’s Gospel and John has a developed view on how it works. This paper makes two contributions. First, I show the complexity and sophistication with which John handles different kinds of testimony in his narrative; this constitutes a category of evidence for the cent...
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Tyndale House Publishers
2014
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| description | Testimony is a central theme in John’s Gospel and John has a developed view on how it works. This paper makes two contributions. First, I show the complexity and sophistication with which John handles different kinds of testimony in his narrative; this constitutes a category of evidence for the centrality of testimony not noted hitherto. Second, I address the central puzzle, namely the prima facie contradiction between 5:31 and 8:14. At issue is whether Jesus’ testimony about himself requires corroborating testimony for it rationally to be believed. I argue that 8:14 has interpretative priority: according to John, no such corroboration is required. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b9cc7ca9-8a7b-4262-bfa3-c5b1bd64ecdf2022-03-27T05:05:34ZTestimony in John's Gospel: The puzzle of 5:31 and 8:14Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b9cc7ca9-8a7b-4262-bfa3-c5b1bd64ecdfTyndale House Publishers2014Simpson, TTestimony is a central theme in John’s Gospel and John has a developed view on how it works. This paper makes two contributions. First, I show the complexity and sophistication with which John handles different kinds of testimony in his narrative; this constitutes a category of evidence for the centrality of testimony not noted hitherto. Second, I address the central puzzle, namely the prima facie contradiction between 5:31 and 8:14. At issue is whether Jesus’ testimony about himself requires corroborating testimony for it rationally to be believed. I argue that 8:14 has interpretative priority: according to John, no such corroboration is required. |
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