TY - BOOK ID - 3068879 TI - The sheep of the fold PY - 2007 VL - 141 SN - 9780521875820 052187582X 9780511488023 9780521130448 9780511350108 0511350104 0511349246 9780511349249 1107182271 1281086177 9786611086176 1139132962 0511351003 0511488025 0511348274 0521130441 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - 226.5 KW - Evangelie volgens Johannes KW - Jean (Book of the New Testament) KW - Johanisi (Book of the New Testament) KW - Johannesevangelium KW - John (Book of the New Testament) KW - Yohan pogŭm KW - Yohane den (Book of the New Testament) KW - Yūḥannā (Book of the New Testament) KW - Ioganaĭ (Book of the New Testament) KW - Иоганай (Book of the New Testament) KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3068879 AB - The last generation of gospel scholarship has considered the reconstruction and analysis of the audience behind the gospels as paradigmatic. The key hermeneutical template for reading the gospels has been the quest for the community that each gospel represents. This scholarly consensus regarding the audience of the gospels has been reconsidered. Using as a test case one of the most entrenched gospels, Edward Klink explores the evidence for the audience behind the Gospel of John. This study challenges the prevailing gospel paradigm by examining the community construct and its functional potential in early Christianity, the appropriation of a gospel text and J. L. Martyn's two-level reading of John, and the implied reader located within the narrative. The study concludes by proposing a more appropriate audience model for reading John, as well as some implications for the function of the gospel in early Christianity. ER -