By Jason L. Merritt
"Devils and Deviants represents an important leap forward within the interpretation of the Johannine Letters. it's a needs to and precise learn in knowing the identification of the Johannine group during the lens of unpolluted questions and numerous methodological methods, together with drawing on group stories. i'd hugely suggest this quantity to any reader who's drawn to figuring out old groups and teams, but in addition groups and teams dealing with clash and department today."
--Francisco Lozada, Jr., Charles Fischer Catholic affiliate Professor of New testomony and Latina/o Church reviews, Brite Divinity School
"Merritt makes clever severe use of social technology examine and types in addition to rhetorical research to re-evaluate the a number of layers of separation language within the Johannine literature. He increases the perfect questions to elicit new and assorted views from the conventional ones."
--Carolyn Osiek, Archivist, Society of the Sacred center, United States-Canada Province; Charles Fischer Professor of recent testomony Emerita, Brite Divinity School
Jason L. Merritt is teacher of classical Greek and rhetoric at Covenant Classical college and a translation advisor for Bible League foreign. He holds a PhD from Brite Divinity university (Texas Christian University).
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