[Rezension von: Smith, Tyler, The fourth Gospel and the manufacture of minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama]
Smith’s study investigates how several literary genres (historiography, biography, romance, and drama) that were common in the early Imperial era create expectations in ancient readers regarding the characters’ thoughts and minds. The central thesis of the dissertation is that the Fourth Gospel inte...
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| Language: | English |
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2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 861-863 |
| Review of: | The fourth Gospel and the manufacture of minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama (Leiden : Brill, 2019) (Despotis, Athanasios)
The Fourth Gospel and the manufacture of minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama (Leiden : Brill, 2019) (Despotis, Athanasios) The fourth Gospel and the manufacture of minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama (Boston : BRILL, 2019) (Despotis, Athanasios) |
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| Summary: | Smith’s study investigates how several literary genres (historiography, biography, romance, and drama) that were common in the early Imperial era create expectations in ancient readers regarding the characters’ thoughts and minds. The central thesis of the dissertation is that the Fourth Gospel integrates literary features from these several genres. Thus it is best appreciated when we allow that the ancient audience will have related John’s narrative to different genres (not only to historical biography) and with different generic expectations in mind. The author’s methodology, as described in the introduction, sounds like a chain of reconstructions. Smith intends to explain how the ancient readers’ minds construct the characters’ minds. Furthermore, these reconstructions serve to compare the way Johannine characters think with ancient representations of minds. Smith intends to describe processes that both ancient authors and readers may be unconscious of (pp. 13, 64), making his task even more challenging. |
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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/flaa104 |