The figure of Abraham in John 8: text and intertext
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The range of Abraham's post-biblical 'afterlives' -- Abraham in the Gospel of John: A survey of the secondary literature -- Full-length studies: Horatio Lona and Tineke...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2020
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Library of New Testament studies (619)
Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Sheridan, Ruth, 1980-, The figure of Abraham in John 8 : text and intertext] (2021) (Bormann, Lukas, 1962 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Library of New Testament studies
619 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Johannesevangelium 8
/ Abraham, Biblical person
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The range of Abraham's post-biblical 'afterlives' -- Abraham in the Gospel of John: A survey of the secondary literature -- Full-length studies: Horatio Lona and Tineke de Lange -- Shorter studies on Abraham in John 8 -- Shorter studies: Abraham in the narrative and communalworlds of John 8 -- Shorter studies: Abraham and intertextuality -- Focused studies: The 'seed of Abraham' in John 8.31-34 -- Focused studies: The 'works of Abraham' (8.39-47) -- Focused studies: Abraham saw and rejoiced (John 8.56-58) -- Summary and ways forward -- The purpose of this book: Outline and argument -- Chapter 2: Theoretical foundations: Intertextuality -- Introduction -- Reflecting on comparative reasoning in textual analysis -- Intertextuality -- Roland Barthes's theorization of intertextuality -- Textual analysis -- Writerly and readerly texts -- Application to the Gospel of John -- Chapter 3: John 8.31-59: Structure, setting, text -- Introduction -- The problem of the textual addressees: Ch. 8 vv. 30 and 31 -- A tripartite structure for ch. 8 vv. 31-59 -- The unity and thematic coherence of John 7.1-8.59 -- Origins -- Knowledge and belief -- Judgement -- Testimony -- Scripting the Sukkot intertext -- Determining the festival setting of John 7-8 -- Sukkot as cultural code and intertext -- The Torah -- The prophets -- The writings -- Pseudepigrapha -- Philo and Josephus -- Rabbinic literature -- Chapter 4: Seed of Abraham, slavery and sin (John 8.31-36) -- Introduction -- Part 1: Scripting the intertextual field -- The Hebrew Bible -- The Abraham Cycle: Gen. 12.1-9 -- 13.14-16 -- 15.1-20 -- 17.1-27 -- 21.8-14 -- 22.15-19 -- Texts outside the Abraham Cycle: Gen. 26.1-5 -- 26.23-24b -- 28.4-5, 13-15 -- 35.11-12 -- Other texts from the Torah. Josh. 24.2-3 -- Isa. 41.8 -- Jer. 33.26 -- Psalm 105.6-12 (MT)/104.6-12 (LXX) -- 2 Chronicles 20.7 -- Post-biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha -- Theme 1: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob help their 'seed' -- Theme 2: Abraham as exemplar to his seed -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- Josephus -- Philo -- The New Testament -- Galatians -- Romans 4.13, 16 -- 9.7-8 -- 2 Cor. 11.22 -- Luke 1.55 -- Acts 3.25 -- Hebrews 2.16 -- 11.18 -- Tannaitic rabbinic literature -- The seed of Abraham -- Abraham's 'children', 'sons' and 'disciples' -- Part 2: The Johannine context -- Servanthood/slavery -- Sin -- Part 3: Reading John 8.31-36 intertextually -- Chapter 5: The works of Abraham (John 8.39-40 (37-48)) -- Introduction -- Part 1: Scripting the intertextual field -- Works as human behaviour in the Hebrew Bible -- Apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature -- Josephus and Philo -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- The New Testament -- 'According to works': Judgement -- 'According to works': Justification -- Rom. 4.4-9 -- Rom. 9.11-12, 30-32 -- James and Hebrews -- Excursus 1: 'Works of the Law' -- Excursus 2: Abraham as Torah observant -- Tannaitic rabbinic literature -- Part 2: The Johannine context -- Works as signs and testimony -- Works and binary dualism -- 'Work the works of God' -- Part 3: Reading John 8.39-41 intertextually -- Chapter 6: Abraham sees and rejoices: John 8.48-59 -- Introduction -- Part 1: Scripting the intertextual field -- The Hebrew Bible -- Abraham's dream (Gen. 15.12) -- Abraham's laughter (Gen. 17.17) -- Abraham's visitors at the Oaks of Mamre (Gen. 18.1-15) -- Abraham's intercession (Gen. 18.16-33) -- Apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature -- Abraham as visionary figure -- Abraham's joy -- The New Testament -- Tannaitic rabbinic literature -- Abraham as seer -- Abraham's joy -- Not yet fifty years old? -- Part 2: The Johannine context. 'Joy' and 'rejoicing' in the Gospel of John -- Seeing and sight in the Gospel of John -- Part 3: Reading John 8.56-58 intertextually -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Commentaries -- Secondary sources -- Author index -- Subject index -- Reference index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (469 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-567-42402-0 |
