Text, Context and the Johannine Community
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Text, Context and the Johannine Community

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Johannine Writings

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Text, Context and the Johannine Community

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Johannine Writings

About this book

Text, Context and the Johannine Community adopts a new approach to the social context of the Johannine writings by drawing on modern sociolinguistic theory. Sociolinguistics emphasizes language as a social phenomenon, which can be analysed with reference not only to its broad context of culture, but also, through the use of register analysis, to its narrower context of situation. The Johannine writings have increasingly been seen as the product of a distinct Johannine Community, depicted by some scholars as a sectarian group, opposed both to wider Jewish society and to other Christian groups. This model has largely been constructed on historical-critical grounds, yet given our lack of reliable external information about the origin of the Johannine writings, a more fruitful approach may be to examine their lexico-grammatical and discourse features to determine what these imply about interpersonal relationships. This study compares selected 'narrative asides' from the Gospel of John with a passage section from 1 John and with the two shorter Johannine Epistles. It concludes that register analysis of these texts does not support the idea of a close-knit sectarian group.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780567665102
eBook ISBN
9780567129666
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: THE RISE AND FALL OF A PARADIGM? THE JOHANNINE COMMUNITY IN RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
  9. Chapter 2: THE COMMUNITY OF THE BELOVED DISCIPLE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF RAYMOND BROWN’S MODEL OF COMMUNITY
  10. Chapter 3: TEXT AND CONTEXT: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORIES OF REGISTER
  11. Chapter 4: THE ANTILANGUAGE ANTISOCIETY: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLOGICAL COMMENTATORS
  12. Chapter 5: THE REGISTER OF THE JOHANNINE WRITINGS: DO THEY REFLECT A PARTICULAR COMMUNITY?
  13. Chapter 6: CONCLUSION: THE DEATH OF THE JOHANNINE COMMUNITY?
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index of References
  16. Index of Authors