Recognizing the stranger
Subtitle: recognition scenes in the Gospel of John
By: by Kasper Bro Larsen.
Series: Biblical interpretation series
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9789004166905
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Recognition in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Odysseus' scar and Jesus' wound marks; title: Previous studies in Johannine recognition; title: The present study : aim, method, and outline; title: Anagnorisis in a theoretical and historical perspective; title: Anagnorisis in Aristotle's poetics; title: The embarrassments of recognition; title: Anagnorisis and the cognitive dimension of John's Gospel; title: The semiotics of recognition; title: The dual appearance of the observed; title: How to display the recognition Mark : showing, telling, and whispering; title: Aspects of recognition: identification and social recognition; title: Anagnorisis as a type-scene in ancient literature; title: The meeting; title: The move of cognitive resistance; title: The move of displaying the token; title: The moment of recognition; title: Attendant reactions and physical (re-)union; title: Anagnorisis and arrival (John 1-4); title: Anagnorisis within the matrix of John's narrative; title: Prologue and prejudice : prefatory whisperings; title: The prologue's web of identity relations; title: The logos changes its guise; title: Recognizing a stranger : comparing Jesus with Odysseus; title: Establishing Jesus' presence in the story-world (1:19-51); title: John the Baptist : recognizing the wrong man (1:19-28); title: Jesus and John the Baptist : from baptismal scene to recognition scene (1:29-34); title: Jesus and the disciples : call narratives in the form of recognition scenes (1:35-51); title: Semeia as Semata : tokens of Jesus' divine doxa; title: Jesus and the Samaritan woman (4:4-42) : betrothal and recognition; title: Recognition in conflict (John 5-19); title: John 5:1-18 : a recognition parody; title: "I am" : a recognition formula; title: John 9 : blindness and insight; title: The recognition scenes of the hour; title: The exposure of Judas as traitor (13:18-30); title: Jesus' arrest : from discovery to self-disclosure (18:1-12); title: Peter's denial (18:15-18, 25-27); title: Jesus judged by Pilate : by what law? (18:28-19:16a); title: Death as arrival : God's recognition of Jesus; title: Recognition and departure (John 20-21); title: John 20-21 : bridging the horizons; title: The race to the empty tomb : acknowledging the absent one (20:10-); title: Mary Magdalene and the Gardener-Rabbi (20:11-18); title: The disciples : recognizers on a mission (20:19-25); title: Jesus and recognizing Thomas (20:26-29); title: John 21:1-14 : community with the absent Jesus; title: The reader as Anagnostes.