Interfigural Readings of the Gospel of John
Interfigural Readings of the Gospel of John

Author: Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 088414402X

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New and challenging readings of biblical characters This volume of collected essays introduces the concept of interfigurality, the interrelations and interdependence between characters in the Gospel of John and in the Synoptic Gospels and the Hebrew Bible.The essays are informed by a narrative-critical reader-response, (post)feminist hermeneutics and an autobiographical approach to biblical texts. This volume encourages transformative encounters between present-day readers and the ancient biblical texts. Features: Previously unpublished conference papers and published essays A new perspective on the relation between New Testament and Hebrew Bible Foreword by Fernando F. Segovia Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger is an independent scholar and the author of Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-viewed (1999) and the editor of The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation (1998) and Autobiographical Biblical Criticism: Between Text and Self (2002).

The Enduring Impact of the Gospel of John
The Enduring Impact of the Gospel of John

Author: Robert A. Derrenbacker

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1666738697

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John’s Gospel possesses a generous range of meanings and has had an enduring impact across the generations. This book explores that impact from a range of disciplines: from the exegetical and theological to the historical, spiritual, liturgical, musical, pastoral, political, and postcolonial. It encompasses contributions from a number of scholars and writers associated with Trinity College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, who all share a common love for this Gospel and a conviction of its continuing relevance. Australian biblical scholar Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB says in his foreword that various “receptions” of the Fourth Gospel are illuminatingly explored in this book, which demonstrates how the Gospel of John has played a critical role in shaping the theology and culture of the Christian tradition.

Review of Biblical Literature, 2021
Review of Biblical Literature, 2021

Author: Alicia J. Batten

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0884145530

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The annual Review of Biblical Literature presents a selection of reviews of the most recent books in biblical studies and related fields, including topical monographs, multi-author volumes, reference works, commentaries, and dictionaries. RBL reviews German, French, Italian, and English books and offers reviews in those languages.

Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John
Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John

Author: Christopher W. Skinner

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 056725965X

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This volume examines characters in the Fourth Gospel and provides an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods. Divided into two sections, the book first considers method and theory, followed by exegetical character studies using a literary or reader-oriented method. It summarizes the state of the discussion, examines obstacles to arriving at a comprehensive theory of character in the Fourth Gospel, compares different approaches, and compiles the diverse methodologies into one comparative study. Through this detailed exegesis, the various theories will come alive, and the merits (or deficiencies) of each approach will be available to the reader. This volume is both a comprehensive study in narrative/reader-oriented theories, and a study in the application of those theories as they apply to characterization. Summing up current research on characters and characterization in the Fourth Gospel, this book also provides a comprehensive presentation of different approaches to character that have developed in recent years.

Feminist Companion to John
Feminist Companion to John

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0826462553

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V. 2: ....studies...includes some that seek to locate the cumulative effect of all the stories concerning women, these lead to general suggestions concerning both the evangelist's view of gender and the role of women in the Johannine community. Also Christological language and theological categories in search for an alternative to the androcentrism and exclusivity theologians typically associate with the Fourth Gospel.Highlights of spcific scenes e.g. crucifixion; appearance to Mary Magdalene; ato interrogate the function of feminine imagery, the implications of particularly troublesome verses & the cultural appropriations of the narratives. .... (from back cover)

What Jesus Learned from Women
What Jesus Learned from Women

Author: James F. McGrath

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-02-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1532680600

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Dehumanization has led to serious misinterpretation of the Gospels. On the one hand, Christians have often made Jesus so much more than human that it seemed inappropriate to ask about the influence other human beings had on him, male or female. On the other hand, women have been treated as less than fully human, their names omitted from stories and their voices and influence on Jesus neglected. When we ask the question this book does, what Jesus learned from women, puzzling questions that have frustrated readers of the Gospels throughout history suddenly find solutions. Weaving cutting edge biblical scholarship together with an element of historical fiction and a knack for writing for a general audience, James McGrath makes the stories of women in the New Testament come alive, and sheds fresh light on the figure of Jesus as well. This book is a must read for scholars, students, and anyone else interested in Jesus and/or in the role of ancient women in the context of their times.

A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative
A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative

Author: Cornelis Bennema

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1451484305

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In this study in three-dimensional character reconstruction, Cornelis Bennema presents a new theory of character in the New Testament literature. Although character has been the subject of focused literary-critical study of the New Testament since the 1970s, Bennema observes that there is still no consensus regarding how character should be understood in contemporary literary theory or in biblical studies. Many New Testament scholars seem to presume that characters in Greco-Roman literature are two-dimensional,”Aristotelian”; figures, unlike the well-rounded, psychologized individuals who appear in modern fiction. They continue nevertheless to apply contemporary literary theory to characters in ancient writings. Bennema here offers a full, comprehensive, and non-reductionist theory for the analysis, classification, and evaluation of characters in the New Testament.

A Feminist Companion to John
A Feminist Companion to John

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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..the first of 2 volumes that deal with the Fourth Gospel. The contents include an introduction ... Jesus, Women and conversation in the Fourth Gospel; ... The Divine Trickster: A tale of two weddings in John; ... Cultural Stereotypes of Women, and Public and Private Space. (from back cover.

Autobiographical Biblical Criticism
Autobiographical Biblical Criticism

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9004397515

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The autobiographical turn in biblical criticism reveals the interpreter’s “I” and reclaims it as an essential critical category, issuing a challenge to traditional, “objective” criticism. Pioneers in the field have contributed essays both practical and theoretical. They offer stimulating autobiographical re-readings of Hebrew Bible and New Testament texts, and address hermeneutical issues that are at stake in this young field of criticism.

Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel
Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel

Author: Hunt, et al

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13: 0802873928

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Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John. These essays present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others), but they also examine characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis (the men of the Samaritan woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more). Taken together, the essays shed new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew.