Prologue of the Fourth Gospel

A Sequential Reading

AvPeter Phillips,Chris Keith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Phillips undertakes a sequential reading of the Prologue of John's Gospel. By using the reading strategies of Iser, Emmott, and Eco, the book establishes a reading strategy termed sequential disclosure, which is then applied to the text. In order to arrive at the reading, preliminary chapters focus both on historical interpretation of the Prologue in terms of reader response and on the role of the author, the use of persuasion and the development of irony. Special focus is given to the role of the dramatic prologue, as well as the interaction between rhetoric, irony and community. As such, the book discusses the role of the reading process in developing a specific community language. The book focuses on the didactic role of the Prologue in teaching readers this language and so including them into the Johannine community. The reading of the Prologue highlights the key aspects of the reading process: ambiguity and disambiguation; resemanticization; antilanguage; community development and intertextuality. A sequential reading of the Prologue highlights the didactic and evangelistic role of this text. JSNTS 294

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-02-16
Mått:162 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt:550 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of New Testament Studies
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567030658

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Biblar inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Reverend Dr Peter Phillips is New Testament Lecturer at Cliff College, Derbyshire and Honorary Research Fellow at Manchester University.

Recensioner i media

"This demanding study is persuasive. Phillips's sophisticated analysis demonstrates that this Gospel has an evangelistic agenda." Kent Brower JSNTS Booklist, 2007

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Introduction; 1.1 Introductory Comments; 1.2 Thresholds, Temples and Pompeii; 1.3 The Beginning as Threshold; 1.4 The Reader at the Threshold. 1.5 The Author at the Threshold; 1.6 Genette, Paratextuality and the Prologue; 1.7 Malbon's Three Functions of Gospel Beginnings; 1.7.1 The Interactional Function; 1.7.2 The Intertextual Function; 1.7.3 The Intratextual Function; 1.8 Thresholds and Welcome; Chapter Two: John's Prologue and Literary Theory; 2.1 Introductory Comments; 2.1.1 John's Prologue and Literary Theory; 2.1.2 John's Prologue and 'Rhetoric'; 2.1.3 John's Prologue and Sociolinguistics; 2.1.4 One Methodology: Three Languages - Sequential Disclosure; 2.2 John's Prologue and Literary Theory; 2.2.1 Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel; 2.2.2 The Print's First Kiss; 2.2.3 Excursus on Paragrammatic Reading; 2.2.4 Back to The Print's First Kiss; 2.3 The Role of the Reader and the Act of Reading; 2.3.1 Wolfgang Iser's Phenomenological Approach to Reading; 2.3.2 Sequential Disclosure and Sequential Reading; 2.3.3 Sequential Disclosure in Catherine Emmott's Narrative Comprehension; 2.3.4 Sequential Disclosure in Eco's Theory of 'Interpretative Cooperation; 2.3.5 From Theory to Practice?; 2.4.1 Stephen Moore on Sustained Interpretations; 2.4.2 Sternberg on David and Bathsheba; 2.5 The Role of Ambiguity in Sequential Disclosure; 2.6 Who, then, is the Reader?; 2.7 Sequential Reading and Educating Readers; 2.8 Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix A: Logos: Some Quotations from Classical Texts.