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The Scriptural Tale in the Fourth Gospel: With Particular Reference to the Prologue and a Syncretic (Oral and Written) Poetics

By Edward H. Gerber

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9004326545, 9789004326545
ISSN
0928-0731
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2353904 bytes)
Series
Biblical Interpretation 147
Edition
Lam
Pages
x+396\407
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-10-08 18:54:56
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Description

A more nuanced view of the Fourth Gospel’s media nature suggests a new and promising paradigm for assessing expansive and embedded uses of scripture in this work. The majority of studies exploring the Fourth Evangelist’s use of scripture to date have approached the Fourth Gospel as the product of a highly gifted writer, who carefully interweaves various elements and figures from scripture into the canvas of his completed document. The present study attempts to calibrate a literary approach to the Fourth Gospel’s use of scripture with an appreciation for oral poetic influences, whereby an orally-situated composer’s use of traditional references and compositional strategy could be of one and the same piece. Most importantly, pre-formed story-patterns—thick with referential meaning—were used in the construction of new works. The present study makes the case that the Fourth Evangelist has patterned his story of Jesus after a retelling of the story of Adam & Israel in two interrelated ways: first in the prologue, and then in the body of the Gospel as a whole.

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