The Paraclete as Christian Muse: Audience-Critical Reflections on the Fourth Gospel's Extrahistorical Claims.
The Fourth Gospel employs familiar authentication strategies such as historical referentiality, eyewitness testimony, and scriptural citation. Yet it also contains extrahistorical claims—most notably Jesus's preexistence and incarnation—that these conventional devices cannot substantiate. Through an...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 145; no. 2; pp. 281 - 304 |
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2026
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