Characterizing Jesus
Subtitle: a rhetorical analysis on the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture in its presentation of Jesus
By: Alicia D. Myers
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- 458; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of New Testament studies -- 458.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780567238979
Subjects: Socio-rhetorical criticism; Bible; Narrative Criticism
Description: This study explores how the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, Myers approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can assist in understanding the ways in which Scripture is employed to support the presentation of Jesus. It offers further evidence in favour of the Gospel's use of rhetoric (particularly the practices of synkrisis, ekpharsis, and prosopopoiia), and gives scholars a new way to use rhetoric to better understand the use of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel and the New Testament as a whole. The book proceeds in three parts. First, it examines ancient Mediterranean practices of narration and characterization in relationship to the Gospel, concluding with an analysis of the Johannine prologue. In the second and third parts, it investigates explicit appeals to Scripture that are made both in and outside of Jesus' discourses. Through these analyses, Myers contends that the pervasive presence of Scripture in quotations, allusions, and references acts as corroborating evidence supporting the evangelist's presentation of Jesus.
Notes: "A Continuum imprint"

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Baylor University, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-221) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Rhetoric, Jesus and Scripture in the Fourth Gospel : an introduction; title: Evangelist and protagonist : narrator, narrative, and person in Mediterranean antiquity; title: Speaking Scripture : the evangelist's voice mediated through the discourses of Jesus; title: Reflecting Scripture : the evangelist's voice mediated outside the discourses of Jesus; title: Conclusion.