Her Testimony Is True: Women As Witnesses According to John (Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Supplement Series, 125)

In Her Testimony is True, the Gospel of John is analysed as a rhetorical work that uses the metaphor of a trial in order to persuade readers that the Messiah is Jesus. John's presentation of women as witnesses in that trial is examined within the framework of Jewish law and custom regarding women as witnesses. Maccini concludes that the role of the women as witnesses follows no stereotypical pattern; that the women as witnesses, like the men, are treated as individuals, not as a class; and that in no case do any of the women bear witness in a way that breaches Jewish law and the custom of the contemporary culture. Cover Editorial Board Title Copyright CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AS TRIAL Chapter 3 WOMEN AS WITNESSES IN BIBLICAL CULTURE Chapter 4 THE MOTHER OF JESUS WAS THERE Chapter 5 A SAMARITAN WOMAN CAME TO DRAW WATER Chapter 6 THE SISTERS SENT WORD TO JESUS Chapter 7 MARTHA SERVED...MARY POURED Chapter 8 STANDING NEAR THE CROSS Chapter 9 MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE TOMB Chapter 10 EXCURSUS Chapter 11 HER TESTIMONY IS TRUE Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors Introduction -- The Gospel Of John As Trial -- Women As Witnesses In Biblical Culture -- The Mother Of Jesus Was There -- A Samaritan Woman Came To Draw Water -- The Sisters Sent Word To Jesus -- Martha Served....mary Poured -- Standing Near The Cross -- Mary Magdalene Went To The Tomb -- Excursus -- Her Testimony Is True. Robert Gordon Maccini. Revision Of Author's Thesis (ph. D.)--university Of Aberdeen, 1994. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [253]-263) And Indexes.