Revisiting the Woman of Samaria and the Ambiguity of Faith in John 4:4-42.
In Das Evangelium des Johannes (1941), Rudolf Bultmann argues that John’s account of the Samaritan woman in John 4:4-42 serves only as a catalyst in bringing the Samaritans to Jesus. Her strange question μήτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ χριστός (v. 29, NRSV: “He cannot be the Messiah, can he?”) arouses the townsp...
| Publicado en: | Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 252 - 277 |
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