Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels: Volume 4: The Gospel of John

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This volume is the fourth in a set of volumes, which together explore current approaches to the study of scripture in the Gospels. Thomas R. Hatina’s latest edited collection begins with an introduction surveying methodological approaches used in the study of how scriptural allusions, quotations, and references function in John, with subsequent essays grouped into four categories that represent the breadth of current interpretive interests. The contributors begin with historical-critical approaches, before moving to rhetorical and linguistic approaches, literary approaches, and finally social memory approaches. Each study contains not only recent research on the function of scripture in John, but also an explanation of the approach taken, making the collection an ideal resource for both scholars and students who are interested in the complexities of interpretation in John’s context as well as our own. Cover Editorial board Title Copyright Contents Series Preface List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1 Search the Scriptures: A Survey of Approaches to the Use of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel Part I Historical Perspectives 2 “Of Whom Moses Wrote”: Torah Themes in John’s Prologue 3 Jesus the Good Shepherd: An Intertextual Approach to Ezekiel 34 and John 10 4 The Fulfilled Word in the Gospel of John: A Polyvalent Analysis 5 Rumors of Glory: A Narrative, Exegetical, and Reception-Historical Reading of John 12:36b–43 Part II Rhetorical and Linguistic Perspectives 6 Jesus’s Dialogues with Those Who Do Not Understand: A Rhetorical Analysis of John 4:1–42 7 The Linguistic Function of Biblical Citations in John’s Gospel Part III Literary Perspectives 8 Quotation as Commentary: The Good News of a King on a Donkey(John 12:12–15) 9 The Authentication of the Narrative: The Function of Scripture Quotations in John 19 10 Jesus and Moses in John Part IV Social Memory Perspectives 11 Proclamation Rejected, Truth Confirmed. Reading John 12:37–44 in a Social Memory Theoretical Framework 12 Zeal That Consumed: Memory of Jerusalem’s Temple and Jesus’s Body in the Gospel of John 13 Memory and Method: Theorizing John’s Mnemonic Use of Scripture Bibliography Index of Authors Index of References