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Rhetoric and Drama in the Johannine Lawsuit Motif (Hardcover)
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Rhetoric and Drama in the Johannine Lawsuit Motif (Hardcover)
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 258
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George L. Parsenios explores the legal character of the Gospel of
John in the light of classical literature, especially Greek drama.
Johannine interpreters have explored with increasing interest both
the legal quality and the dramatic quality of the Fourth Gospel,
but often do not connect these two ways of reading John. Some
interpreters even assume that the one approach excludes the other,
and that John is either legal or dramatic, but not both. Legal
rhetoric and tragic drama, however, were joined throughout
antiquity in a complex pattern of mutual influence. To connect John
to drama, therefore, is to connect John to legal rhetoric, and
doing so helps to see even more clearly the pervasiveness of the
legal motif in the Gospel of John. Tracing the legal character of
"seeking" in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, for example, sheds new light
on the legal character of "seeking" in the Fourth Gospel,
especially in the enigmatic comment of Jesus at John 8:50. New
insights are also offered regarding the evidentiary character of
the signs of Jesus, based on comparison with Aristotle's comments
about signs and rhetorical evidence in both the Poetics and
Rhetoric, as well as by comparison with plays by Aeschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides. To call the signs of Jesus evidence,
however, does not remove them from the dialectical tension inherent
in Johannine theology. If the signs are evidence, they are evidence
in a world in which the basis of forming judgments has been
problematized by the appearance of the Word in the flesh.
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