TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beirne, Margaret M.
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TI  - Women and Men in the Fourth Gospel
SN  - 0567042502
U1  - 226.506 
CY  - Great Britain
KW  - Bible -- John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Sex role -- Religious aspects
KW  - Religion -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
N2  - The fourth gospel presents the reader with an early Christian text in which women and men are treated as a discipleship of equals. Margaret M. Beirne makes an argument for the existence in the gospel of six examples of gender pairs of characters (a widely-accepted Lukan feature). The members of each pair are portrayed in a parallel or contrasting faith encounter with the Johannine Jesus, that is of substantial theological importance to the gospel's stated purpose (John 20:31). Through close examination of these pairs, Beirne offers a reading of the Gospel which gives support to the equal
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