The Gospel of John as genre mosaic
By: Kasper Bro Larsen (ed.).
Series: Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica -- volume 3; Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica -- v. 3.
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Göttingen; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9783525536193
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Bible as literature; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Narrative Criticism; Form Criticism
Description: "In recent decades New Testament scholarship has developed an increasing interest in how the Gospel of John interacts with literary conventions of genre and form in the ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman context. The present volume brings together leading scholars in the field in order to discuss the status quaestionis and to identify new exegetical frontiers. In the Fourth Gospel, genres and forms serve as vehicles of ideological and theological meaning. The contributions to this volume aim at demonstrating how awareness of ancient and modern genre theories and practices advances our understanding of the Fourth Gospel"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes papers presented at a conference held June 23-26, 2014 at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-388) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Gospel of John: genre matters?  -- Harold W. Attridge; title: Contemporary genre studies: an interdisciplinary conversation with Johannine Scholarship  -- Sune Auken; title: John, gender, and genre: revisiting the woman question after masculinity studies  -- Colleen M. Conway; title: The silent spaces between narrative and drama: mimesis and diegesis in the Fourth Gospel  -- George L. Parsenios; title: Generic docetism: from the synoptic narrative gospels to the Johannine discursive gospel  -- Anders Klostergaard Petersen; title: The Lord, the lamb, and the lover: the Gospel of John as a mixture of spiritualized narrative genres  -- Ole Davidsen; title: John among the ancient novels  -- Jo-Ann A. Brant; title: John's prologue as exegetical narrative  -- Ruth Sheridan; title: Rhetorical peristaseis (circumstances) in the prologue of John  -- Douglas Estes; title: From the Sēmeia narratives to the Gospel as a significant narrative: on genre-bending in the Johannine miracle stories  -- Jörg Frey; title: Characterization in John 4 and the prototypical type-scene as a generic concept  -- Tyler Smith; title: John 12:1-8 as a royal anointing scene  -- David Svärd; title: John 13 as counter-memory: how the Fourth Gospel revises early Christian historiography  -- Eve-Marie Becker; title: A question of genre: John 13-17 as paraklēsis  -- Troels Engberg-Pedersen; title: The woman in labor (John 16:21) and the parables in the Fourth Gospel  -- Ruben Zimmermann; title: The recognition scenes and epistemological reciprocity in the Fourth Gospel -- Kasper Bro Larsen.