The Discipleship Paradigm: Readers and Anonymous Characters in the Fourth Gospel (Biblical Interpretation, #27)

by David Beck

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This volume examines the Fourth Gospel narrative in terms of its character portrayal, especially the portrayal of anonymous characters. It focuses on how characterization impacts readers, eliciting their involvement in the narrative, particularly the recognition of and response to Jesus' identity, and how anonymity facilitates that participation.
The first chapters examine the understanding of characterization in contemporary literary theory, then the author explores other contemporaneous narratives for the function of anonymous characters in those narratives. The final chapters examine specific character portrayals in the Fourth Gospel, demonstrating how the narratives of anonymous characters draw the reader into participation in the narrative and enables identification with those characters, especially the disciple Jesus loved, the Johannine paradigm of discipleship.
  • ISBN10 9004107002
  • ISBN13 9789004107007
  • Publish Date 1 August 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill