The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture: Reconsidering I Peter`s Commands to Wives
- London Bloomsbury 2013
- 283p
- Library of New Testament Studies - 426 .
1. John and Oral Culture Seeing, Hearing, Declaring Writing Media Dynamics in the Letters of John ........11 The Riddle of the Baptist and the Genesis of the Prologue .............29 A Performance of the Text : The Adulteress`s Entrance into John`s Gospel ..........49 2. John as Oral Performance John`s Memory theatre: A Study of Composition in Performance ..............73 The Medium and Message of John : Audience address and Audience Identity in the Fourth Gospel ............92 Jesus Retold as the World`s Light in Johannine Oral Prophecy ........121 Scripture Talks Because Jesus Talks: The Narrative Rhetoric of Persuading and Creativity in John`s Use of Scripture ........133 3. John in the Medium of Memory John`s Gospel and the Oral Gospel Tradition ...........157 Memory, Commemoration and History in John ........186 Abraham as a Figure of Memory in John .........205 4. Reflections and Directions What different does the Medium Make .......225 Introducing Media Culture to Johannine Studies Orality, Performance and Memory ...........239