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Come and Read explores four interpretive approaches (narrative, sociocultural, intertextual, and rhetorical) and applies them to three key passages in the Gospel of John. The combined work of top Johannine scholars, this collection illustrates the methods employed, the value of multiple approaches, and how method impacts the conclusions reached.
List of contents
Come and Read: An Introduction to Methods of Johannine Interpretation
Alicia D. Myers and Lindsey S. Jodrey
Part 1: John 1:1-18
1. A Narrative Reading
Beginnings: Introducing the Narrative of the Word through the Prologue of John's Gospel
Sherri Brown
2. A Sociocultural Reading
John 1 Beyond the Binary
Lindsey S. Jodrey
3. An Intertextual Reading
Revealing the Fuller Word
Craig S. Keener
4. A Rhetorical Reading
Ambiguity as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Prologue to John's Gospel
Jo-Ann A. Brant
Part 2: John 10
5. A Narrative Reading
The Parable of the Sheepfold: A Narrative Reading of John 10
Dorothy A. Lee
6. A Sociocultural Reading
Jesus the Good Shepherd: John 10 as Political Rhetoric
Warren Carter
7. An Intertextual Reading
Persuasion through Allusion: Evocations of "Shepherd(s)" and their Rhetorical Impact in John 10
Catrin H. Williams
8. A Rhetorical Reading
Discerning Characters: Parresia, Paroimia, and Jesus's Rhetoric in John 10:1-21
Alicia D. Myers
Part 3: Jo
About the author
Lindsey S. Jodrey is associate director of digital learning at Princeton Theological Seminary.Fernando F. Segovia is Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Vanderbilt School of Divinity.Lindsey S. Jodrey is associate director of digital learning at Princeton Theological Seminary.Angela N. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, GA.
Summary
The contributors in Come and Read examine John 1:1-18, John 10, and John 20 using intertextual, ideological, rhetorical, and narrative perspectives.
