John's Gospel: A Two-Level Drama?
(2003) In Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25(3). p.309-322- Abstract
- During the past decades, scholars have attempted to reconstruct the history of a Johannine community through reading John's Gospel as a two-level drama. According to this understanding, the Gospel relates events that took place in the community after Jesus' earthly ministry, while these events are presented as a story about Jesus himself. The present essay evaluates this allegorical reading of the Gospel, first through a search for ancient parallels that would constitute a genre of the two-level drama, secondly through a discussion of the alleged intra-textual indications of the Gospel's allegorical character. The conclusion arrived at is that both the search for an ancient two-level genre and the search for hints of allegory in the text... (More)
- During the past decades, scholars have attempted to reconstruct the history of a Johannine community through reading John's Gospel as a two-level drama. According to this understanding, the Gospel relates events that took place in the community after Jesus' earthly ministry, while these events are presented as a story about Jesus himself. The present essay evaluates this allegorical reading of the Gospel, first through a search for ancient parallels that would constitute a genre of the two-level drama, secondly through a discussion of the alleged intra-textual indications of the Gospel's allegorical character. The conclusion arrived at is that both the search for an ancient two-level genre and the search for hints of allegory in the text are unsuccessful. The hypothesis of a Johannine two-level drama is therefore highly implausible. (Less)
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- Hägerland, Tobias LU
- publishing date
- 2003
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Johannine community, Gospel of John, allegory
- in
- Journal for the Study of the New Testament
- volume
- 25
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 309 - 322
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
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- scopus:84998104793
- ISSN
- 0142-064X
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
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- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (015017000)
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- 40b74c58-eb98-4e9e-9f26-c667d1a796d2 (old id 1504586)
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