[Rezension von: Attridge, Harold W., 1946-, History, theology, and narrative rhetoric in the Fourth Gospel]
This book is the collection of Père Marquette Lectures in Theology given by Harold W. Attridge in 2019. Attridge focuses his lectures on the Gospel of John, the subject of much of his recent work. This short, three-chapter book succeeds in offering a succinct overview of Johannine scholarship from t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 859-861 |
| Review of: | History, theology, and narrative rhetoric in the Fourth Gospel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Marquette University Press, 2019) (Myers, Alicia D.)
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| Summary: | This book is the collection of Père Marquette Lectures in Theology given by Harold W. Attridge in 2019. Attridge focuses his lectures on the Gospel of John, the subject of much of his recent work. This short, three-chapter book succeeds in offering a succinct overview of Johannine scholarship from the era of Bultmann onward, while also putting forward several new contributions to understanding the theology of John’s Gospel.Attridge begins with an overview of past approaches to the Gospel of John, with a primary focus on Western European scholarship. He divides this overview into categories described as historical, social, and literary. While he is indebted to contributions made by scholarly work in all three categories, Attridge focuses on literary approaches, expressing some scepticism about scholarly abilities to reconstruct the history of the Gospel community or the Gospel’s composition in detail. He argues explicitly for understanding John as a drama, citing four key dramatic components of the Gospel: the unique prologue that resonates with the beginnings of Greek dramas, the Gospel’s extensive use of dramatic irony, Jesus’s delayed exit in chapters 14-17, and the repetition of recognition scenes (anagnoresis). According to Attridge, the Gospel’s use of drama creates its ‘narrative rhetoric’, causing the audience to experience an encounter with Jesus through his dramatic interactions with Gospel characters (pp. 40-1). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa107 |