{"product_id":"understanding-judaism-and-the-jews-in-the-gospel-of-john-polemic-tradition-and-johannine-self-identity-9781978717466","title":"Understanding Judaism and the Jews in the Gospel of John: Polemic, Tradition, and Johannine Self-Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Judaism and the Jews in the Gospel of John: Polemic, Tradition, and Johannine Self-Identity \u003c\/i\u003ereopens the perennial question of the Fourth Gospel's perplexing characterization of \"the Jews.\" According to the reigning paradigm, the Gospel of John witnesses to a community's burgeoning sense of religious distinctiveness. Ethnically Jewish believers in Jesus had begun to forge a new identity in \u003ci\u003econtrast\u003c\/i\u003e to the Jews. Nathan Thiel assesses the weaknesses of the prevailing model\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003earguing that the fourth evangelist still saw himself as living and working within the Jewish tradition. Yet if the Gospel of John is the literary product of a self-consciously Jewish author, why would he speak so often and so critically of \"the Jews\"? Thiel considers the factors which have conditioned the evangelist's choice of terminology: the Gospel's setting, its intended audience, and, above all, John's indebtedness to Scripture. As a first-century Jew well-versed in Israel's sacred texts, the evangelist has modeled his story of Jesus after patterns familiar to him from the Scriptures--Scriptures in which Israelite authors consistently portray their ancestors as faithless despite God's powerful work on their behalf. John is a relentless critic, but such cutting theological assessment had long been part of Israel's counterintuitive way of telling its history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Thiel\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is an independent scholar. His main areas of research are ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean history and culture with a focus on Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fortress Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903981326610,"sku":"9781978717466","price":120.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8a99f361-cd31-4b54-b376-f26ae24f573a.jpg?v=1738508142","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/understanding-judaism-and-the-jews-in-the-gospel-of-john-polemic-tradition-and-johannine-self-identity-9781978717466","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}