The Shape Of 1-3 John & Jude : A Covenant-Literary Analysis

The man of God on the mountain is not only given the blueprint for the City of God in a vision, he himself-in his flesh-is also to be the blueprint.The Gospel of John and the Revelation both employ the elements of the Tabernacle as a pattern for their literary composition. The possibility that John used the same pattern to govern the composition of the three preserved epistles is worthy of investigation.Indeed, the complexity of the multilayered "construction" of these letters indicates a miraculous gift from God, the literary equivalent of the cunning work of the Spirit-filled artisans Bezalel and Aholiab. The difference, of course, is that John is building tents out of words, ministering to the camp of the saints in anticipation of the coming holy city. Identification of the literary "tessellations" not only reveals John's internal logic, and explains many, if not all, of the oddities and ambiguities in the text, but it also sheds light upon the authenticity of its infamous textual variant.

• | Author: Michael Bull
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Jul 08, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 334 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1792083475
• | ISBN-13: 9781792083471