Reading John through Johannine Lenses

Stan Harstine

doi:10.5771/9781978712942

Summary

Reading John through Johannine Lenses demonstrates that the model an interpreter chooses for examining the Gospel of John significantly impacts the resulting interpretation. The Fourth Evangelist uses key words in the prologue in order to guide the reader toward key moments in the gospel. Stan Harstine shows how four words— life, word, receive, and believe— converge at transition points in John 5, 12, and 17. Their close relationship is not random; rather, it guides the reader to recall what the Gospel has presented in the preceding section, providing a road map for understanding the narrative. By using interpretive models from both diachronic and synchronic methodologies, Harstine’s comparison of traditional historical methods with more recent narrative and rhetorical methods demonstrates the wide disparity of results from prior approaches, thus accentuating the importance of reading the Fourth Gospel through the lenses it provides its readers.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1293-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1294-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 130
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Table No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Abbreviations No access
1. Various Approaches to the Prologue No access
2. Relationship to the “Gospel Proper” No access
3. Another Approach to the Question of Unity No access
4. Notes No access
1. Light as a Theme in the Gospel No access
2. Life as a Theme in the Gospel No access
3. What Is the Alternative? No access
4. Notes No access
1. Diachronic Approach: Historical Criticism No access
2. Synchronic Approach: Narrative Criticism No access
3. Synchronic Approach: Rhetorical Criticism No access
4. Reading John 5 through Themes from the Prologue No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Diachronic Approach: Historical Criticism No access
2. Synchronic Approach: Narrative Criticism No access
3. Synchronic Approach: Rhetorical Criticism No access
4. Reading John 12 through Themes from the Prologue No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Diachronic Approach: Historical Criticism No access
2. Synchronic Approach: Narrative Criticism No access
3. Synchronic Approach: Rhetorical Criticism No access
4. Reading John 17 through Themes from the Prologue No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Review of the Four Themes No access
2. Analysis No access
3. Unity of the Gospel No access
4. Final Propositions No access
5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 113 - 122
Author Index No access Pages 123 - 124
Scripture Index No access Pages 125 - 128
About the Author No access Pages 129 - 130