Characterization in the Gospels

1999-01-01
Characterization in the Gospels
Author: David Rhoads
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781841270043
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This volume examines characterization in the four Gospels and in the Sayings Gospel Q. Peter in Matthew, Lazarus in John, and Jesus as Son of Man in Q are examples of the characters studied. The general approach is narrative-critical. At the same time, each contribution takes special effort to widen the scope beyond the narrated world to include the text's ideological and real-life setting as well as its effective history. New ways of doing narrative criticism are thus proposed. The concluding essay by David Rhoads delineates the development and envisions the future of narrative criticism in Gospel studies.

Encountering Jesus

2014
Encountering Jesus
Author: Cornelis Bennema
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451470061
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Applying a comprehensive theory of character to the Gospel of John, Cornelis Bennema provides a fresh analysis of the characters and their responses to Jesus. While the majority of scholars view most Johannine characters as flat, Bennema demonstrates that many are complex, developing, and round. Johns broad array of characters correspond to people and their choices in real life in any culture and time. This book highlights how Johns Gospel seeks to challenge its readers about where they stand in relation to Jesus.

The Gospels as Stories

2020-06-16
The Gospels as Stories
Author: Jeannine K. Brown
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149342355X
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Popular writer and teacher Jeannine Brown shows how a narrative approach illuminates each of the Gospels, helping readers see the overarching stories. This book offers a corrective to tendencies to read the Gospels piecemeal, one story at a time. It is filled with numerous examples and visual aids that show how narrative criticism brings the text to life, making it an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on the Gospels. Readers will gain hands-on tools and perspectives to interpret the Gospels as whole stories.

Mark's Jesus

2014-12
Mark's Jesus
Author: Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781481303545
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Noted biblical scholar Elizabeth Struthers Malbon asks a literary question in this landmark volume: how does the Markan narrative characterise Jesus? Through a close narrative analysis, she carefully examines various ways the Gospel discloses its central character. The result is a multi-layered Markan narrative christology, focusing not only on what the narrator and other characters say about Jesus (pro-jected christology), but also on what Jesus says in response to what these others say to and about him (deflected christology), what Jesus says instead about himself and God (refracted christology), what Jesus does (enacted christology), and how what other characters do is related to what Jesus says and does (reflected christology). Holding significant implications for those who wish to use Mark's Gospel to make claims about the historical Jesus, as well as for those who wish to use Mark's Gospel to construct confessions about the church's belief, Malbon's research is a groundbreaking work of scholarship.

Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel

2016
Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel
Author: Hunt, et al
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2016
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802873928
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Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John. These essays present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others), but they also examine characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis (the men of the Samaritan woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more). Taken together, the essays shed new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew.

Exploring People of the New Testament

2007-03-15
Exploring People of the New Testament
Author: John Phillips
Publisher: Kregel Academic
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0825433878
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Readers of this last volume in the series will gain fresh insight into the lives of more than forty people from the New Testament, including well-known characters such as Mary, Peter, and John, and lesser-known characters such as Anna and Nathanael. Includes outlines and numerous illustrations and quotations.

Other Followers of Jesus

1994-06-01
Other Followers of Jesus
Author: Joel Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1994-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567603482
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The Gospel of Mark includes a series of similar episodes in which he presents minor characters and their response to Jesus. These individuals are neither disciples nor opponents of Jesus but rather people who are drawn, in a broad sense, from the crowd. Mark presents these characters either as suppliants or as those who exemplify a proper response to Jesus and his way. The purpose of this narrative study is to explore the effect of Mark's presentation of minor characters on the reader. It traces Mark's treatment of these individuals through the narrative and shows how Mark's presentation of minor characters moves the reader toward an acceptance of the demands of following Jesus.

A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative

2014
A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative
Author: Cornelis Bennema
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451472219
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Although character has been the subject of focused literary-critical study of the New Testament (and a point of connection with character ethics) since the 1970s, the author observes that there is still no consensus regarding how characterization should be understood in contemporary literary theory or in biblical studies.

John and Thomas--Gospels in Conflict?

2009-06-01
John and Thomas--Gospels in Conflict?
Author: Christopher W. Skinner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1606086146
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The hypothesis that the Fourth Gospel is a theological response to the Gospel of Thomas is a recent development in the study of the New Testament and early Christianity. Assuming an early date for the Gospel of Thomas, the proponents of this hypothesis argue that the supposed polemical presentation of Thomas in the Fourth Gospel is evidence of a conflict between the early communities associated respectively with John and Thomas. However, a detailed narrative study reveals that the Fourth Gospel portrays a host of characters--disciples and non-disciples--in an equally unflattering light where an understanding of Jesus's origins, message, and mission are concerned. The present study attempts to demonstrate that the Fourth Gospel's presentation of Thomas is part and parcel of its treatment of uncomprehending characters. If this thesis is correct, it poses a significant challenge to the assumption that the Fourth Gospel contains a polemic against Thomas, or that it was written in response to the Gospel of Thomas or the community associated with Thomas.