The Fourth Gospel in First-Century Media Culture

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Examines the Fourth Gospel in reference to First-Century media culture, including issues of issues of orality, aurality and performance.

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Contributors	p. vii
Introducing Media Culture to Johannine Studies: Orality, Performance and Memory	p. 1
John and Oral Culture
Seeing, Hearing, Declaring, Writing: Media Dynamics in the Letters of John	p. 11
The Riddle of the Baptist and the Genesis of the Prologue: John 1.1-18 in Oral/Aural Media Culture	p. 29
A Performance of the Text: The Adulteress's Entrance into John's Gospel	p. 49
Johnas as Oral Performance
John's Memory Theatre: A Study of Composition in Performance	p. 73
The Medium and Message of John: Audience Address and Audience Identity in the Fourth Gospel	p. 92
Jesus Retold as the World's Light in Johannine Oral Prophecy	p. 121
Scripture Talks because Jesus Talks: The Narrative Rhetoric of Persuading and Creativity in John's Use of Scripture	p. 133
John in the Medium of Memory
John's Gospel and the Oral Gospel Tradition	p. 157
Memory, Commemoration and History in John 2.19-22: A Critique and Application of Social Memory	p. 186
Abraham as a Figure of Memory in John 8.31-59	p. 205
Reflections and Directions
What Difference Does the Medium Make?	p. 225
Introducing Media Culture to Johannine Studies: Orality, Performance and Memory	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 279
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