Jesus the Samaritan : : Ethnic Labeling in the Gospel of John / / Stewart Penwell.

• Author: Penwell, Stewart.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation Series 170.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages).

In Jesus the Samaritan: Ethnic Labeling in the Gospel of John , Stewart Penwell examines how ethnic labels function in the Gospel of John. After a review of the discourse history between “the Jews” and “the Samaritans,” the dual ethnic labeling in John 4:9 and 8:48 are examined and, in each instance, members from “the Jews” and “the Samaritans” label Jesus as a member of each other’s group for deviating from what were deemed acceptable practices as a member of “the Jews.” The intra-textual links between John 4 and 8 reveal that the function of Jesus’s dual ethnic labeling is to establish a new pattern of practices and categories for the “children of God” (1:12; 11:52) who are a trans-ethnic group united in fictive kinship and embedded within the Judean ethnic group’s culture and traditions.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Surveying Jesus’s Ethnic Incarnation -- Ethnicity and Labeling -- Naming Narratives -- Labeling an Ethnic Jesus -- Ethnic Assessments in the Gospel of John -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography.