Lord's Words
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Lord's Words

The Hermeneutics and Theology of Memory in John’s Gospel

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Lord's Words

The Hermeneutics and Theology of Memory in John’s Gospel

About this book

The great Johannine speeches of Jesus in the fourth gospel exert an unbroken magic on their listeners. They accomplish this by use of vivid imagery (e.g., bread, vine, shepherd, way) and their many repetitions of crucial insights. What seems at first monotonous actually draws one into a deep spiral of knowledge.

Apart from a few exceptions, interpreters of John's gospel agree: The historical Jesus did not speak as John styles his Jesus. If the goal is to reconstruct the message and words of the historical Jesus, one will have to turn to the synoptic gospels. The Lord's Words develops a new explanation model for the genesis of the Johannine Jesus speeches: These speeches are based on "core words" from the Johannine church tradition, which the evangelist received, reflected in the monologues and dialogues of the gospel, and so worked out his speech compositions.

The study is not, as in an older branch of research, the apologetic attempt to connect John to a presumed Jesus tradition by tracing the development of the "words of the Lord." Rather, the book focuses upon the literary and theological hermeneutics of the evangelist in dealing with those "good words."

At the same time, the book pursues the goal of uncovering the origins of the high Johannine Christology ("Wisdom Christology"), investigating the trauma of the Johannine Christians' schism from the Jewish synagogue.

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Yes, you can access Lord's Words by Michael Theobald, Jacob N. Cerone in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Biblical Criticism & Interpretation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. 1. The Riddle of the Johannine “Revelation Discourses”: Tasks and Questions
  7. Part I: “Words of the Lord” on the Basis of the Synoptics (Tradition Criticism)
  8. 2. “Words of the Lord” with Synoptic Parallels
  9. 3. “Words of the Lord” as Metatexts of Synoptic Traditions
  10. Part II: Specific Johannine “Words of the Lord”
  11. 4. The “I Am” Sayings
  12. 5. Parables and Similar Metaphors
  13. 6. Wisdom Sayings
  14. 7. Sayings of Promise and Consolation
  15. Part III: The Johannine “Line of Development”
  16. 8. Between an Origin in Jesus and Gnostic Dissolution?: The Tradition-Historical Location of the Johannine Saying
  17. Part IV: The Reception of the “Words of the Lord” in the Gospel of John
  18. 9. The Tradition of the Sayings and Their Transformation into Dialogue
  19. 10. The Evangelist’s Interpretations of the Words of the Lord: Theological Principles
  20. 11. Hermeneutics of “Remembrance”
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index of Ancient Sources
  23. Index of Contemporary Names
  24. Index of Subjects