The history of scholarship narrates a complicated past for the
interpretation of the -Shepherd Discourse in the Fourth Gospel.
Both the internal and contextual integrity of John 9: 39-10: 21
have been compromised by a misapplied analogy dividing the passage
into a parable and explanation structure, and by reading models
that favor historical approaches. As a result, the images and
figures encountered in the discourse have not been allowed their
full imaginative impact and the tendency is to look outside the
Gospel for their referents and explanations. The meaning of the
-Shepherd Discourse lies not in its relation to the rest of the
Fourth Gospel, but to that which is imported into the narrative.
Moreover, its function as the discourse to chapter 9, and in the
whole of the Gospel, is overlooked. Lewis employs the strategy of
rereading, borrowed from literary theory, to address the internal
integrity of the discourse and the relationship of the discourse to
the rest of the narrative. The literary phenomenon of rereading
highlights the interconnectedness of the whole of the discourse and
allows all of the imagery to be assessed at a figurative level.
Rereading also foregrounds the function of John 9: 39-10: 21 as the
discourse to the healing of the blind man in chapter nine, and
calls attention to the importance of the -Shepherd Discourse for
the interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, especially the
often-ignored image of Jesus as the door. This book suggests that
rereading is necessitated by the Gospel itself as a fundamental
feature of its unique theological expression."
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