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Recognizing the stranger : recognition scenes in the Gospel of John /

"Recognizing the Stranger" is the first monographic study of recognition scenes and motifs in the Gospel of John. The recognition type-scene ("anagn?risis") was a common feature in ancient drama and narrative, highly valued by Aristotle as a touching moment of truth, e.g., in Oed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Larsen, Kasper Bro
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Biblical interpretation series ; v. 93.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Odysseus' scar and Jesus' wound marks
  • Previous studies in Johannine recognition
  • The present study : aim, method, and outline
  • Anagnorisis in a theoretical and historical perspective
  • Anagnorisis in Aristotle's poetics
  • The embarrassments of recognition
  • Anagnorisis and the cognitive dimension of John's Gospel
  • The semiotics of recognition
  • The dual appearance of the observed
  • How to display the recognition Mark : showing, telling, and whispering
  • Aspects of recognition : identification and social recognition
  • Anagnorisis as a type-scene in ancient literature
  • The meeting
  • The move of cognitive resistance
  • The move of displaying the token
  • The moment of recognition
  • Attendant reactions and physical (re- )union
  • Anagnorisis and arrival (John 1-4)
  • Anagnorisis within the matrix of John's narrative
  • Prologue and prejudice : prefatory whisperings
  • The prologue's web of identity relations
  • The logos changes its guise
  • Recognizing a stranger : comparing Jesus with Odysseus
  • Establishing Jesus' presence in the story-world (1:19-51)
  • John the Baptist : recognizing the wrong man (1:19-28)
  • Jesus and John the Baptist : from baptismal scene to recognition scene (1:29-34)
  • Jesus and the disciples : call narratives in the form of recognition scenes (1:35-51)
  • Semeia as Semata : tokens of Jesus' divine doxa
  • Jesus and the Samaritan woman (4:4-42) : betrothal and recognition
  • Recognition in conflict (John 5-19)
  • John 5:1-18 : a recognition parody
  • "I am" : a recognition formula
  • John 9 : blindness and insight
  • The recognition scenes of the hour
  • The exposure of Judas as traitor (13:18-30)
  • Jesus' arrest : from discovery to self-disclosure (18:1-12)
  • Peter's denial (18:15-18, 25-27)
  • Jesus judged by Pilate : by what law? (18:28-19:16a)
  • Death as arrival : God's recognition of Jesus
  • Recognition and departure (John 20-21)
  • John 20-21 : bridging the horizons
  • The race to the empty tomb : acknowledging the absent one (20:10- )
  • Mary Magdalene and the Gardener-Rabbi (20:11-18)
  • The disciples : recognizers on a mission (20:19-25)
  • Jesus and recognizing Thomas (20:26-29)
  • John 21:1-14 : community with the absent Jesus
  • The reader as Anagnostes.