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Das Vermächtnis Jesu und die Abschiedsworte der Väter : Gattungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung der Vermächtnisrede im Blick auf Joh. 13-17
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ISBN: 352553843X 9783525538432 Year: 1994 Volume: 161 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Departure and consolation
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ISBN: 9004142789 1280867655 9786610867653 1429452757 9047407016 1433705044 9789047407010 9781429452755 9789004142787 9781433705045 Year: 2005 Volume: 117 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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In contrast to the common opinion that the Johannine Farewell Discourses represent solely the Jewish genre of the Testament, George Parsenios argues that features of the discourses are misread or missed completely apart from Greco-Roman literature. Evidence from classical drama, for instance, assists in reading Jesus' return to the Father as a dramatic exit and, further, accounts for the puzzling delay of Jesus at 14:31 without recourse to redaction theories. Consolation literature and the literary symposium emphasize Jesus' continuing and consoling presence, with particular attention to the Paraclete's role as doppelgänger. The thread that binds the various chapters into a coherent whole, therefore, is the utility of classical literature in clarifying Jesus' consoling presence even after his departure to the Father.

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