The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus Modern Foundations Reconsidered
, by Anderson, Paul N.
- ISBN: 9780567033307 | 0567033309
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/12/2008
Engages critically a pervasive set of assumptions within modern biblical studies: namely, that because John is theological and different from the Synoptics, it cannot be historical - nor does it contribute anything of substance to the quest for the histor
Paul N. Anderson is Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies at George Fox University, USA. He is a co-chair of the 'John, Jesus, and History' group at the National Society of Biblical Literature meetings, and is co-editing its findings
| Tables | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Introduction: John versus Jesus - Modern Foundations of Biblical Scholarship | p. 1 |
| Modern Foundations for the Critical Investigation of John, Jesus and History | p. 7 |
| The Story of John's Historical Marginalization and its Implications | p. 8 |
| The Traditional View and its Development - From Papias (or Luke?) to Schleiermacher | p. 9 |
| Modern Challenges and Advances - From Bretschneider to Bultmann | p. 15 |
| Critiques of Modern Hypotheses - From Neander to Blomberg | p. 21 |
| The Autonomy and Development of the Johannine Tradition - From Gardiner-Smith to Smith | p. 23 |
| Modern Paradigms and Their Adequacy | p. 25 |
| The 'Traditional' View: John's Apostolic Authorship | p. 25 |
| The 'Critical' View: John's Employment of Alien (non-Johannine) Sources | p. 26 |
| Markan-Dependence Theory | p. 28 |
| Midrashic-Development Approaches | p. 30 |
| Historicized-Drama Hypotheses | p. 31 |
| Two Editions of John | p. 32 |
| The History of the Johannine Situation | p. 33 |
| Cognitive Criticism and Traditionsgeschichte | p. 36 |
| The 'Dialogical Autonomy of John' - A New Synthesis Advanced | p. 37 |
| An Autonomous and Developing Tradition | p. 38 |
| The Dialectical Thinking of the Evangelist | p. 38 |
| The History-of-Religions Origin of John's Human-Divine Dialectic | p. 38 |
| Dialogical Engagements in the Johannine Situation | p. 39 |
| A Two-Edition Theory of Composition | p. 39 |
| Aspects of Interfluentiality between John and Other Traditions | p. 40 |
| Revelation and Rhetoric - Dialogical Modes of the Johannine Narrative | p. 41 |
| Findings | p. 41 |
| On Planks and Platforms - A Critical Assessment of Critical Foundations Regarding John, Jesus and History | p. 43 |
| Planks in Platform A: The De-Historicization of John | p. 46 |
| John's Differences with the Synoptics | p. 47 |
| Synoptic Omissions in John | p. 49 |
| Johannine Omissions in the Synoptics | p. 55 |
| The Johannine Jesus Speaks and Acts in the Mode of the Evangelist | p. 58 |
| The Johannine Material is Rendered in Response to the History of the Johannine Situation | p. 63 |
| The Johannine Evangelist Spiritualizes and Theologizes According to his Purposes | p. 68 |
| Planks in Platform B: The De-Johannification of Jesus | p. 74 |
| John's Similarities with the Synoptics - Especially Mark | p. 74 |
| John's Composition: Diachronic or Synchronic? | p. 76 |
| The Lateness of John and Historical Validity | p. 78 |
| Criteria for Determining Historicity | p. 85 |
| The History-of-Religions Background of John | p. 90 |
| Emerging Portraits of Jesus | p. 92 |
| Findings | p. 97 |
| Interfluential, Formative and Dialectical - A Theory of John's Relation to the Synoptics | p. 101 |
| John's Relation to Mark: Interfluential, Augmentive and Corrective | p. 104 |
| John and Mark: An 'Interfluential Set of Relationships' during the Oral Stages of their Respective Traditions | p. 104 |
| John's Augmentation of Mark | p. 107 |
| John's Correcting of Mark? | p. 110 |
| John's Influence upon Luke: Formative, 'Orderly' and Theological | p. 112 |
| John's Formative Influence upon Luke | p. 113 |
| Does John Provide a Basis for Luke's 'Orderly' Account? | p. 114 |
| Did the Johannine Tradition Contribute to Luke's Theology? | p. 115 |
| Acts 4.19-20 - A First-Century Clue to Johannine Authorship? | p. 116 |
| Contacts between John and Q? | p. 117 |
| John's Relation to Matthew: Reinforcing, Dialectical and Corrective | p. 119 |
| Matthean and Johannine Sectors of Christianity: Reinforcing Each Other's Missions and Tasks | p. 119 |
| Dialectical Relations Between Johannine Christianity and Intramural Centralizing Tendencies | p. 120 |
| The Finalized Gospel of John: A Corrective to Rising Institutionalism in the Late First-Century Church | p. 122 |
| Findings | p. 125 |
| Jesus in Bi-Optic Perspective - Contributions to the Jesus Quest from Synoptic and Johannine Sources | p. 127 |
| Dual Attestation - John and the Synoptics | p. 128 |
| Jesus' Association with John the Baptist and the Beginning of his Public Ministry | p. 135 |
| Jesus' Calling of Disciples as a Corporate Venture | p. 136 |
| A Revolt in the Desert? | p. 138 |
| Jesus as a Healer; Healing on the Sabbath | p. 140 |
| Jesus' Sense of Prophetic Agency from the Father and Religious Resistance | p. 141 |
| Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple | p. 142 |
| The Culmination of Jesus' Ministry - his Arrest, Trials and Death in Jerusalem | p. 143 |
| Attestations to Appearances and the Beginning of the Jesus Movement | p. 144 |
| Synoptic Contributions to the Quest for the Jesus of History | p. 145 |
| Jesus' Teachings about the Kingdom of God in Parables and in Short, Pithy Sayings | p. 146 |
| The Messianic Secret and the Hiddenness of the Kingdom | p. 146 |
| Jesus' Healing and Exorcizing Ministries | p. 147 |
| Jesus' Sending out his Disciples to Further the Work of the Kingdom | p. 149 |
| Jesus' Dining with 'Sinners' and Provocations toward Renewal | p. 149 |
| Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple as an Intentional Challenge to the Restricting of Access to God | p. 150 |
| Jesus' Teaching on the Heart of the Law - the Love of God and Humanity | p. 151 |
| Jesus' Apocalyptic Mission | p. 152 |
| Johannine Contributions to the Quest for the Jesus of History | p. 154 |
| Jesus' Simultaneous Ministry alongside John the Baptizer and the Prolific Availability of Purifying Power | p. 154 |
| Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple as an Inaugural Prophetic Sign | p. 158 |
| Jesus' Travel to and from Jerusalem and his Multi-Year Ministry | p. 161 |
| Early Events in the Public Ministry of Jesus | p. 162 |
| Favourable Receptions in Galilee among Samaritans, Women and Gentiles | p. 164 |
| Jesus' Judean Ministry and Archaeological Realism | p. 166 |
| The Last Supper as a Common Meal and its Proper Dating | p. 170 |
| Jesus' Teaching about the Way of the Spirit and the Reign of Truth | p. 171 |
| Findings | p. 173 |
| Modern Foundations Reconsidered - Implications for the Critical Investigation of John, Jesus and History | p. 175 |
| A Sympathetic Note for the Modernist Project | p. 176 |
| Real Problems of Presentation and Interpretation | p. 176 |
| Overstated Claims - In One Direction or Another | p. 177 |
| Enduring Challenges of Supernaturalism for Scientific Inquiry | p. 177 |
| Merited Authority and its Appropriations | p. 179 |
| Critical Analysis as a Way Forward | p. 180 |
| John and the Synoptics - A Nuanced Appraisal of the Bi-Optic Traditions | p. 180 |
| John the Problem; John the Key | p. 181 |
| History and Theology in All Four Traditions | p. 181 |
| A Common Subject; A Diversity of Portraiture | p. 182 |
| A Variety of Presentation; A Coherence of Impression | p. 183 |
| Dialectical Memory and Dialogical Engagement | p. 183 |
| The Dialogical Autonomy of John and Modern Foundations Reconsidered | p. 185 |
| Intra-traditional Reflection - First Impressions and Later Understandings | p. 185 |
| Inter-traditional Engagement - Dialogical Relationships Between Gospel Traditions | p. 186 |
| Cognitive Dialectic - Conjunctive Approaches to Historical and Theological Challenges | p. 187 |
| Dialogical Narrative - Engaging the Reader in an Imaginary Dialogue with One's Subject | p. 188 |
| Dialectical Hermeneutics - An Interdisciplinary Quest for History and Meaning | p. 189 |
| Findings | p. 189 |
| Conclusion: John and the Quest for Jesus - A Nuanced View | p. 191 |
| A Two-Edition Theory of Johannine Composition | p. 193 |
| A Historical Outline of Johannine Christianity | p. 196 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 200 |
| Index of References | p. 215 |
| Index of Authors | p. 225 |
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