Women and Men in the Fourth Gospel

by Margaret Beirne

The fourth gospel presents the reader with an early Christian text in which women and men are treated as "a discipleship of equals." Margaret M. Beirne makes an argument for the existence in the gospel of six examples of "gender pairs" of characters (a widely-accepted Lukan feature). The members of each pair are portrayed in a parallel or contrasting faith encounter with the Johannine Jesus, that is of substantial theological importance to the gospel's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567042502
• ISBN13: 9780567042507
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"