Jairus’s Daughter and the Haemorrhaging Woman

Tradition and Interpretation of an Early Christian Miracle Story

By (author) Arie W. Zwiep

Book cover: Jairus’s Daughter and the Haemorrhaging Woman

Extent: 454 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Series volume number: 421

Language: English

Hardback (Unspecified)

(June 2019)

ISBN: 9783161575600

6.61 x 9.69 inches

Price: $199.00

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In this work, Arie W. Zwiep examines the gospel stories of the raising of Jairus’s daughter and the healing of the haemorrhaging woman (Mark 5:21-43; Matt 9:18-26; Luke 8:40-56) from a plurality of (sometimes conflicting) interpretive strategies to demonstrate the need and fruitfulness of a multi-perspectival exegetical approach. Among the various (diachronic and synchronic) methods that are being applied in this study are philological criticism, form criticism and structural analysis, tradition- and redaction criticism, orality studies and performance criticism, narrative analysis, textual criticism and the study of intertextuality. Such a comprehensive approach, it is argued, leads to an increased knowledge and a deepened understanding of the ancient texts in question and to a sharpened awareness of the applicability of current scholarly research instruments to unlock documents from the past.

  • By (author) Arie W. Zwiep