By Jason L. Merritt
"Devils and Deviants represents an important breakthrough within the interpretation of the Johannine Letters. it's a needs to and certain learn in knowing the id of the Johannine neighborhood during the lens of unpolluted questions and diverse methodological methods, together with drawing on group reports. i might hugely suggest this quantity to any reader who's attracted 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 experiences, Brite Divinity School
"Merritt makes clever severe use of social technological know-how examine and versions besides rhetorical research to re-evaluate the a number of layers of separation language within the Johannine literature. He increases the ideal questions to elicit new and assorted views from the normal 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 university and a translation advisor for Bible League overseas. He holds a PhD from Brite Divinity university (Texas Christian University).
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