The Prologue of the Fourth Gospel A Sequential Reading

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Phillips undertakes a sequential reading of the Prologue of John's Gospel. By using the reading strategies of Iser, Emmott, and Eco, the book establishes a reading strategy termed sequential disclosure, which is then applied to the text. In order to ar

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter One: Introduction

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1.1 Introductory Comments

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1.2 Thresholds, Temples and Pompeii

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1.3 The Beginning as Threshold

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1.4 The Reader at the Threshold

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1.5 The Author at the Threshold

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1.6 Genette, Paratextuality and the Prologue

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1.7 Malbon's Three Functions of Gospel Beginnings

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1.7.1 The Interactional Function

1.7.2 The Intertextual Function

1.7.3 The Intratextual Function

1.8 Thresholds and Welcome

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Chapter Two: John's Prologue and Literary Theory

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2.1 Introductory Comments

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2.1.1 John's Prologue and Literary Theory

2.1.2 John's Prologue and 'Rhetoric'

2.1.3 John's Prologue and Sociolinguistics

2.1.4 One Methodology: Three Languages Sequential Disclosure

2.2 John's Prologue and Literary Theory

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2.2.1 Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel

2.2.2 The Print's First Kiss

2.2.3 Excursus on Paragrammatic Reading

2.2.4 Back to The Print's First Kiss

2.3 The Role of the Reader and the Act of Reading

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2.3.1 Wolfgang Iser's Phenomenological Approach to Reading

2.3.2 Sequential Disclosure and Sequential Reading

2.3.3 Sequential Disclosure in Catherine Emmott's Narrative Comprehension

2.3.4 Sequential Disclosure in Eco's Theory of 'Interpretative Co-operation'

2.4 From Theory to Practice?

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2.4.1 Stephen Moore on Sustained Interpretations

2.4.2 Sternberg on David and Bathsheba

2.5 The Role of Ambiguity in Sequential Disclosure

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2.6 Who, then, is the Reader?

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2.7 Sequential Reading and Educating Readers

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2.8 Conclusion

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Chapter Three: John's Prologue and Rhetoric

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3.1 John's Prologue and Rhetoric

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3.2 Rhetoric as the Art of Persuasion

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3.3 Rhetoric and Point of View

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3.4 Rhetoric as Author-Centred, Audience-Orientated

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3.5 Rhetoric and the Prologue

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3.6 The Prologue and the Prooimion

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3.6.1 Aristotle and the Prooimion

3.6.2 The Dramatic Prologue

3.6.3 The Didactic Role of Dramatic Prologues

3.6.4 The Prooimion and the Prologue

3.6.5 Prooimion or Prologue: Neither or Both?

3.7 Repetitio

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3.7.1 Repetitio and the Prologue

3.7.2 The Effect of Repetitio in the Prologue a Spiral Structure?

3.7.3 The Role of Repetition and Spiral Structure for the Reader

3.8 The Prologue and Irony

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3.8.1 Irony in Ancient Rhetoric

3.8.2 Irony in Greek Drama

3.8.3 Irony as Invitation

3.9 Conclusion

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Chapter Four: John's Prologue and Sociolinguistics

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4.1 Introduction

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4.2 Meeks and Johannine Sectarianism

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4.3 Beyond Meeks

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4.4 Petersen and Antilanguage

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4.4.1 The Johannine Community as an Antisociety with an Antilanguage

4.4.2 The Functions and Setting of Antilanguage

4.4.3 Halliday and Antilanguage

4.4.4 Schniedewind and Qumranic Hebrew as an Antilanguage

4.4.5 Johannine Language as an Antilanguage?

4.4.6 A Johannine Antilanguage

4.4.7 Antilanguage to Semantic Shift

4.5 Semantics

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4.5.1 Wierzbicka and Conceptual Synonymy

4.5.2 Specific Meanings developed for Specific Contexts

4.5.3 Semantic Shift and the Gospel of John

4.5.4 Semantic Shift and Sequential Disclosure

4.6 Speech Accommodation Theory (SAT)

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4.6.1 Malina and SAT

4.6.2 SAT as Intergroup or Intragroup Dynamic?

4.6.3 SAT – another look

4.6.4 Valentinian Exegesis as Outgroup Divergence

4.6.5 The Prologue as Outgroup Convergence

4.7 Conclusion

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Chapter Five: The Logos

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5.1 Introduction

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5.2 Intertextuality Again

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5.3 A Way Forward?

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5.4 General Greek Usage – the Lexica

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5.5 Christian Intertexts

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5.5.1 In the Gospels in General

5.5.2 In the Johannine Literature

5.5.3 Elsewhere in the New Testament

5.5.4 Some Preliminary Conclusions

5.5.6 Non-Canonical Christian Literature –The Odes as an Example

5.6 Hellenistic Intertexts

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5.6.1 Heraclitus

5.6.1.1 Heraclitus and Logos

5.6.1.2 Heraclitus or a Stoic Heraclitus?

5.6.1.3 Heraclitus and a Logos Doctrine?

5.6.1.4 Ambiguity in Heraclitean and Johannine Literature

5.6.2 The Stoics

5.6.2.1 The Stoics and Logos

5.6.2.2 The Stoic Logos and the Prologue

5.6.3 Gnostic/Hermetic Material

5.6.3.1 Intertextual Possibilities in The Corpus Hermeticum

5.6.3.2 The Corpus Hermeticum

5.6.3.3 Poimandres

5.6.3.4 Hermeticism and the Prologue

5.6.3.5 Introductory Comments to the Gnostic Texts

5.6.3.6 Tripartite Tractate

5.6.3.7 Gospel of Truth

5.6.3.8 Trimorphic Protennoia

5.6.3.9 Gnostic and Hermetic Texts and the Prologue

5.7 A Hellenistic-Jewish Intertext – Philo of Alexandria

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5.7.1 Introductory Comments

5.7.2 Philo and

5.7.3 Dodd, Plato and Philo

5.7.4 Philo and the Prologue

5.8 Other Jewish Intertexts

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5.8.1 The Word of God in the Hebrew Bible

5.8.1.1 The Word of God

5.8.1.2 Metaphor or Being?

5.8.1.3 in the Septuagint and the Prologue

5.8.2 The Sapiential Tradition

5.8.2.1 Wisdom

5.8.2.2 Available or Remote Wisdom?

5.8.2.3 Scott's Sophia and the Johannine Jesus

5.8.2.4 The Prologue as Re-interpretation

5.8.2.5 Wisdom: A Conclusion?

5.8.3 Torah Speculation

5.8.3.1 Wisdom, Word and Torah

5.8.3.2 The Prologue and Torah

5.8.4 The Use of

5.8.5 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the use of in 1QS11.11

5.9 Conclusion

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5.9.1 Intertextual parallels?

5.9.2 Intertextual echoes?

5.9.3 The Logos and Learning How to Read

5.9.4 The Logos as Jesus

5.9.5 Exit the Logos – Enter Jesus

Chapter Six: A Reading of the Prologue

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6.1 Introduction

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6.2 Verse 1a

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6.3 Verse 1b,c

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6.4 Verse 2

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6.5 Verse 3a,b

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6.6 Verse 3c, 4

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6.7 Verse 5

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6.8 Verse 6

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6.9 Verse 7

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6.10 Verse 8

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6.11 Verse 9

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6.12 Verse 10

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6.13 Verse 11

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6.14 Verse 12

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6.15 Verse 13

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6.16 Verse 14a

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6.17 Verse 14b

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6.18 Verse 14c

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6.19 Verse 15

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6.20 Verse 16

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6.21 Verse 17

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6.22 Verse 18

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Chapter Seven: Conclusion

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Bibliography

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Index of References

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Index of Names

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