Speaking of Jesus: Essays on Biblical Language, Gospel Narrative and the Historical Jesus

This volume presents a selection of essays by the late Willem Vorster. An introductory essay by the editor explains Vorster’s contribution to New Testament scholarship in general, and to the South African New Testament scholarship in particular. Vorster’s essays are grouped primarily under the topics of language and linguistics, reader response, narratology, historical paradigms and the historical Jesus. In addition to his work on method, Vorster was a well-known Markan scholar, and this is reflected in the fact that more than half of his methodological essays are concerned with that gospel. The book includes a curriculum vitae and a full bibliography.