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Character studies in the Fourth Gospel : narrative approaches to seventy figures in John / edited by Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie & Ruben Zimmermann ; foreword by Craig R. Koester.

Contributor(s): Hunt, Steven A [editor.] | Tolmie, D. F. (D. Francois) [editor.] | Zimmermann, Ruben, 1968- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016Description: xxii, 724 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802873927 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0802873928 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Characters and characteristics in the BibleDDC classification: 226.5/06 LOC classification: BS2615.52 | .C44 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
An introduction to character and characterization in John and related New Testament literature / Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann -- Table on the characters in the fourth gospel / Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann -- John (the Baptist): the witness on the threshold / Catrin H. Williams -- The world : promise and unfulfilled hope / Christopher W. Skinner -- "The Jews" : unreliable figures or unreliable narration? / Ruben Zimmermann -- The priests and Levites : identity and politics in the search for a Messiah / Sherri Brown -- The Pharisees : a house divided / Uta Poplutz -- The disciples of John (the Baptist) : hearers of John, followers of Jesus / Gary T. Manning, Jr. -- An anonymous disciple : a type of discipleship / Derek Tovey -- Andrew : the first link in the chain / Martinus C. de Boer -- Simon Peter : an ambiguous character and his narrative career / Michael Labahn -- Philip : a connective figure in polyvalent perspective / Paul N. Anderson -- Nathanael : under the fig tree on the fourth day / Steven A. Hunt -- The mother of Jesus : a woman possessed / Mary L. Coloe -- The disciples : the "now" and "not yet" of belief in Jesus / Susan E. Hylen -- The servants/steward at Cana : the "whispering wizard's" wine-bearers / Mary L. Coloe -- The bridegroom at Cana : ignorance is bliss / Edward W. Klink III -- The brothers of Jesus : all in the family? / Joel Nolette and Steven A. Hunt -- The animal sellers/the money changers in the Temple : driven out - but why? / Mark A. Matson -- Nicodemus: the travail of new birth / R. Alan Culpepper -- "A Jew" : a search for the identity and role of an anonymous Judean / Mark Appold -- The Samaritan woman : a woman transformed / Harold W. Attridge -- The men of the Samaritan woman : six of Sychar / Steven A. Hunt -- The Samaritans of Sychar : a responsive chorus / Peter Phillips -- The Galileans : interpretive possibilities and the limits of narrative critical approaches / Andy M. Reimer -- The royal official : not so officious / Peter J. Judge -- The son of the royal official : incarnating the life giving power of Jesus' word / Gilbert Van Belle and Steven A. Hunt -- The slaves of the royal official : servants of the word / Peter J. Judge -- The ill and the sick : those who were healed and those who were not / D. Francois Tolmie -- The invalid at the pool : the man who merely got well / J. Ramsey Michaels -- The crowd : a faceless, divided mass / Cornelis Bennema -- The boy with loaves and fish : picnic, plot, and pattern / Dieter T. Roth -- Judas (the Betrayer) : the black sheep of the family / Cornelis Bennema -- The authorities : indeterminate complex identities / Susanne Luther -- The chief priests : masterminds of Jesus' death / Cornelis Bennema -- The Temple police : double agents / Gary T. Manning, Jr. -- The Greeks : Jesus' hour and the weight of the world / Sherri Brown -- The scribes and the elders : mirror characterization of Jesus and his opponents in the Pericope adulterae / Chris Keith -- The adulterous woman : nameless, partnerless, defenseless / Peter Phillips -- The devil : murderer, liar, and defeated foe / Dave L. Mathewson -- The man born blind : true disciple of Jesus / Andy M. Reimer -- The neighbors of the man born blind : a question of identity / Matthew D. Montonini -- The parents of the man born blind : the reason for fear without true reason / Michael Labahn -- The believers across the Jordan : on location with Jesus / Ruben Zimmermann -- Lazarus : "behold a man raised up by Christ!" / Marianne Meye Thompson -- Mary (of Bethany) : the anointer of the suffering Messiah / Susan Miller -- Martha : seeing the glory of God / Gail R. O'Day -- Thomas : question marks and exclamation marks / Thomas Popp -- Caiaphas and Annas : the villains of the piece? / Adele Reinhartz -- The beloved disciple : the ideal point of view / James L. Resseguie -- Judas (not Iscariot) : what's in a name? / Catrin H. Williams -- The Roman soldiers at Jesus' arrest : "you are dust, and to dust you shall return" / Steven A. Hunt -- Malchus : cutting up in the garden / Christopher W. Skinner -- People in the courtyeard : escalating darkness / Helen K. Bond -- Pontius Pilate : failing in more ways than one / D. Francois Tolmie -- Barabbas : a foil for Jesus, the Jewish leadership, and Pilate / David L. Mathewson -- The soldiers who crucify : fulfilling scripture / Michael Labahn -- The co-crucified men : shadows by his cross / Chelsea N. Revell and Steven A. Hunt -- The women by the cross : creating contrasts / D. Francois Tolmie -- Mary Magdalene : beginning at the end / Jaime Clark-Soles -- The mother of Jesus and the beloved disciple : how a new family is established under the cross / Jean Zumstein -- Joseph of Arimathea : one of "the Jews," but with a fearful secret! / William John Lyons -- The angels : marking the divine presence / Jan van der Watt -- The sons of Zebedee and two other disciples : two pairs of puzzling acquaintances in the Johannine dénouement / Christos Karakolis.

Originally published:Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

An introduction to character and characterization in John and related New Testament literature / Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann -- Table on the characters in the fourth gospel / Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann -- John (the Baptist): the witness on the threshold / Catrin H. Williams -- The world : promise and unfulfilled hope / Christopher W. Skinner -- "The Jews" : unreliable figures or unreliable narration? / Ruben Zimmermann -- The priests and Levites : identity and politics in the search for a Messiah / Sherri Brown -- The Pharisees : a house divided / Uta Poplutz -- The disciples of John (the Baptist) : hearers of John, followers of Jesus / Gary T. Manning, Jr. -- An anonymous disciple : a type of discipleship / Derek Tovey -- Andrew : the first link in the chain / Martinus C. de Boer -- Simon Peter : an ambiguous character and his narrative career / Michael Labahn -- Philip : a connective figure in polyvalent perspective / Paul N. Anderson -- Nathanael : under the fig tree on the fourth day / Steven A. Hunt -- The mother of Jesus : a woman possessed / Mary L. Coloe -- The disciples : the "now" and "not yet" of belief in Jesus / Susan E. Hylen -- The servants/steward at Cana : the "whispering wizard's" wine-bearers / Mary L. Coloe -- The bridegroom at Cana : ignorance is bliss / Edward W. Klink III -- The brothers of Jesus : all in the family? / Joel Nolette and Steven A. Hunt -- The animal sellers/the money changers in the Temple : driven out - but why? / Mark A. Matson -- Nicodemus: the travail of new birth / R. Alan Culpepper -- "A Jew" : a search for the identity and role of an anonymous Judean / Mark Appold -- The Samaritan woman : a woman transformed / Harold W. Attridge -- The men of the Samaritan woman : six of Sychar / Steven A. Hunt -- The Samaritans of Sychar : a responsive chorus / Peter Phillips -- The Galileans : interpretive possibilities and the limits of narrative critical approaches / Andy M. Reimer -- The royal official : not so officious / Peter J. Judge -- The son of the royal official : incarnating the life giving power of Jesus' word / Gilbert Van Belle and Steven A. Hunt -- The slaves of the royal official : servants of the word / Peter J. Judge -- The ill and the sick : those who were healed and those who were not / D. Francois Tolmie -- The invalid at the pool : the man who merely got well / J. Ramsey Michaels -- The crowd : a faceless, divided mass / Cornelis Bennema -- The boy with loaves and fish : picnic, plot, and pattern / Dieter T. Roth -- Judas (the Betrayer) : the black sheep of the family / Cornelis Bennema -- The authorities : indeterminate complex identities / Susanne Luther -- The chief priests : masterminds of Jesus' death / Cornelis Bennema -- The Temple police : double agents / Gary T. Manning, Jr. -- The Greeks : Jesus' hour and the weight of the world / Sherri Brown -- The scribes and the elders : mirror characterization of Jesus and his opponents in the Pericope adulterae / Chris Keith -- The adulterous woman : nameless, partnerless, defenseless / Peter Phillips -- The devil : murderer, liar, and defeated foe / Dave L. Mathewson -- The man born blind : true disciple of Jesus / Andy M. Reimer -- The neighbors of the man born blind : a question of identity / Matthew D. Montonini -- The parents of the man born blind : the reason for fear without true reason / Michael Labahn -- The believers across the Jordan : on location with Jesus / Ruben Zimmermann -- Lazarus : "behold a man raised up by Christ!" / Marianne Meye Thompson -- Mary (of Bethany) : the anointer of the suffering Messiah / Susan Miller -- Martha : seeing the glory of God / Gail R. O'Day -- Thomas : question marks and exclamation marks / Thomas Popp -- Caiaphas and Annas : the villains of the piece? / Adele Reinhartz -- The beloved disciple : the ideal point of view / James L. Resseguie -- Judas (not Iscariot) : what's in a name? / Catrin H. Williams -- The Roman soldiers at Jesus' arrest : "you are dust, and to dust you shall return" / Steven A. Hunt -- Malchus : cutting up in the garden / Christopher W. Skinner -- People in the courtyeard : escalating darkness / Helen K. Bond -- Pontius Pilate : failing in more ways than one / D. Francois Tolmie -- Barabbas : a foil for Jesus, the Jewish leadership, and Pilate / David L. Mathewson -- The soldiers who crucify : fulfilling scripture / Michael Labahn -- The co-crucified men : shadows by his cross / Chelsea N. Revell and Steven A. Hunt -- The women by the cross : creating contrasts / D. Francois Tolmie -- Mary Magdalene : beginning at the end / Jaime Clark-Soles -- The mother of Jesus and the beloved disciple : how a new family is established under the cross / Jean Zumstein -- Joseph of Arimathea : one of "the Jews," but with a fearful secret! / William John Lyons -- The angels : marking the divine presence / Jan van der Watt -- The sons of Zebedee and two other disciples : two pairs of puzzling acquaintances in the Johannine dénouement / Christos Karakolis.

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