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KLINK III, E. W., The Sheep of the Fold. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 336p. Paperback. Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 141. 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. (Publisher's information). € 46.11 (New) (MD)

KLINK III, E. W., The Sheep of the Fold. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 334p. Hardback. Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 141. 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. (Publisher's information). € 70.40 (New) (MD)

BEUTLER, J. and FORTNA, R. T., The Shepherd Discourse of John 10 and its Context. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 184p. Paperback. Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 67. This volume, which emerges from an SNTS seminar in 1985–1986, analyses one of the best-known, but also one of the most intriguing, of Jesus' discourses within the Fourth Gospel. Previous studies of the Shepherd Discourse have concentrated either on its historical setting in the life of Jesus (Simonis) or on the prehistory of its text (Bullmann and his school). The present study, consisting of essays written by an international team of specialists, adopts a more contextual approach. The Shepherd Discourse is here situated in the text of the Fourth Gospel, with particular emphasis on the preceding chapter and on the subsequent Passion narrative. The internal coherence of John 10 so becomes clearer, and it is seen that - in spite of its links with Gnostic ideas - the roots of the Discourse in Old Testament and Jewish texts about the shepherds of Israel become apparent. (Publisher's information). € 30.34 (New) (MD)

BASGELEN, N., The Shores of Pegasus. From Fethiye to Antalya. Archaeology and Art Publications, Istanbul, 2007. XXIV,142p. Richly and nicely ills. Cloth wrps. € 39.50 (New)

FOX, G. and PENNEY, N. and HARVEY, T. E., The Short Journals and Itinerary Journals of George Fox: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 452p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion. This volume brings together three journals of George Fox (1624–1691) the founder of the Religious Society of Friends. It was edited by Norman Penny and first published in 1925 to mark the tercentenary of Fox's birth. The Short Journal, dictated by Fox during his detention in Lancaster prison (1663–1664), records Fox's missionary wanderings and the persecutions he faced between 1648 and 1663. The Itinerary Journal, compiled by John Field, contains an account of Fox's missionary work, church organisational activities and family life from 1681 to his death in 1691. The Haistwell Diary, written by Fox's companion Edward Haistwell, records Fox's activities between 1677 and 1679, including his missionary journey across the length of England and his missionary voyages to Holland and North Germany. The collection is a key source for those studying Fox's life and thought or the history and origins of the Quaker movement. (Publisher's information). € 43.68 (New) (MD)

DANCY, J. C., The Shorter Books of the Apocrypha. Cambridge University Press, 1972. 264p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the Apocrypha. The plan of this volume of commentary on the New English Bible texts of the shorter books of the Apocrypha follows the pattern of the now well established New Testament series. The main divisions of the text are those provided by the New English Bible itself, but these are further subdivided for the purposes of the commentary which is printed in short sections following the relevant portion of the text. The books presented in this volume are Tobit, in which the angel Raphael guides Tobit's son Tobias on various adventures, Judith, with its dramatic tale of the beheading of Holophernes, The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther (together with the Book of Esther), Baruch, A Letter of Jeremiah, The Apocryphal Additions to Daniel (The Song of the Three, Daniel Daniel, Bel, and the Snake), and The Prayer of Manasseh. (Publisher's information). € 27.90 (New) (MD)

PREVITÉ-ORTON, C.W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History in two volumes. Vol. I. The Later Roman Empire to the Twelfth Century. Vol. II. The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 1978. XXI,643;XIX,645-1202p. Paperback. € 18.50 (Antiquarian)

PREVITÉ-ORTON, C.W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Volume I. The Later Roman Empire to the Twelfth Century. Volume II. The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance. The Readers Union / Cambridge University Press, London, 1955. 2 vols. XXI,643;XIX,645-1202p. ills.(B&W photographs and maps). Gilt buckram. Cover bit scratched. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. (Complete).From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 62.50 (Antiquarian)

MITCHELL SOMMERS, S., The Siblys of London. A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England. Oxford University Press, 2018. 362p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism. Blakeans will be thoroughly intrigued. Wayne C. Ripley, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly Nov 2021 |a 22/12/2021 (Publisher's information). € 149.46 (New)

LIGHTFOOT, J. L., The Sibylline Oracles. With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books. Oxford University Press, 2007. 640p. Hardback. offers a meticulous presentation and comprehensive explication of a neglected ancient text Gordon Lyn Watley, The Classical Review (Publisher's information). € 353.28 (New) (MD)