Dialogue in the Book of signs
Subtitle: a polyvalent analysis of John 1:19-12:50
By: by Johnson Thomaskutty
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- Volume 136; Biblical interpretation series -- v. 136.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9789004301597; 9789004301610
Subjects: Dialogue in the Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Description: Dialogue in the Book of Signs offers a polyvalent analysis of John 1:19-12:50 at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. With the help of several synchronic methods, including genre, narrative, rhetorical, and dramatic studies, the author analyzes the content, form, and function of John's dialogue. Thus, the divine-human dialogue, which is interwoven within the text, provides a key to the understanding of the dialogue between the narrator and the reader. In this volume, after setting a background and a theoretical framework, an extensive exploration of dialogue at the exchange, episode, and narrative levels is offered. The connection of dialogue with other literary aspects such as monologues, signs, I AM sayings, and metaphors is also established. Thus, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of dialogue in John 1-12. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-523) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / R. Alan Culpepper; title: Introduction; title: Micro- and Meso-analyses of the dialogue in the book of signs (John 1:19-12:50) ; A glory-focused Revelatory (1:19-2:12) ; A Challenge and Riposte Dialogue (2:13-22) ; A Pedagogical Dialogue Leading to a Monologue (3:1-21) ; A Report-and-Defense Dialogue to a Narrative Commentary ; An Inter-Religious Dialogue in Dual-stage Setting (4:1-42) ; A Request-Rebuke-Response Dialogue (4:43-54) ; A Sign and a Controversy Dialogue Leading to a Monologue (5:1-47) ; From Sign-centric Dialogues to Question-and-Answer Dialogues (6:1-71) ; A Religious-THeological Dialogue Formed in a Series of Challenge-and-Riposte (7:1-52; 812-59) ; A Dramatic Dialogue Leading to a Monologue and a Community Dialogue (9:1-10:21) ; A Forensic Dialogue Develops from-Antithetical-to-Synonymous Mode (10:22-42) ; A Glory-focused Revelatory Dialogue (11:1-53) ; A Conflict-centric Dialogue as a Conclusion (11:54-12:50); title: Macro-level Analysis.