2013/01/01 by Adele Reinhartz · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Archaeology and Historical Studies
paper · doi:10.1163/9789004250369_009
openalex publication_date 2013/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/04
This chapter proposes an alternative to the construction of the audience, situation, and rhetorical purpose of the Gospel. The hypothesis is as follows: the audience, the you to which the Gospel is addressed, is not a Jewish group of Christ-confessors but a community, whether large or small, that included Samaritan and Gentile participants alongside Jewish believers in Christ who themselves had made the move from their groups of origin to this new community. The chapter is quite different from the narrative embedded in the inner-Jewish rift hypothesis, which situates the Gospel into the history of the parting of the ways, the process by which Christianity eventually became a set of belief systems and institutions that were separate from those of Judaism. Keywords:Christ; Gentile; Gospel; Jewish; Johannine community; Judaism; Samaritan