Recognizing the stranger : recognition scenes in the Gospel of John / / by Kasper Bro Larsen.

• Superior document: Biblical interpretation series,
• Author: Larsen, Kasper Bro.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical interpretation series ; v. 93.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Recognizing the Stranger is the first monographic study of recognition scenes and motifs in the Gospel of John. The recognition type-scene ( anagnōrisis ) was a common feature in ancient drama and narrative, highly valued by Aristotle as a touching moment of truth, e.g., in Oedipus’ tragic self-disc...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Odysseus' scar and Jesus' wound marks
• Previous studies in Johannine recognition
• The present study : aim, method, and outline
• Anagnorisis in a theoretical and historical perspective
• Anagnorisis in Aristotle's poetics
• The embarrassments of recognition
• Anagnorisis and the cognitive dimension of John's Gospel
• The semiotics of recognition
• The dual appearance of the observed
• How to display the recognition Mark : showing, telling, and whispering
• Aspects of recognition : identification and social recognition
• Anagnorisis as a type-scene in ancient literature
• The meeting
• The move of cognitive resistance
• The move of displaying the token
• The moment of recognition
• Attendant reactions and physical (re-)union
• Anagnorisis and arrival (John 1-4)
• Anagnorisis within the matrix of John's narrative
• Prologue and prejudice : prefatory whisperings
• The prologue's web of identity relations
• The logos changes its guise
• Recognizing a stranger : comparing Jesus with Odysseus
• Establishing Jesus' presence in the story-world (1:19-51)
• John the Baptist : recognizing the wrong man (1:19-28)
• Jesus and John the Baptist : from baptismal scene to recognition scene (1:29-34)
• Jesus and the disciples : call narratives in the form of recognition scenes (1:35-51)
• Semeia as Semata : tokens of Jesus' divine doxa
• Jesus and the Samaritan woman (4:4-42) : betrothal and recognition
• Recognition in conflict (John 5-19)
• John 5:1-18 : a recognition parody
• "I am" : a recognition formula
• John 9 : blindness and insight
• The recognition scenes of the hour
• The exposure of Judas as traitor (13:18-30)
• Jesus' arrest : from discovery to self-disclosure (18:1-12)
• Peter's denial (18:15-18, 25-27)
• Jesus judged by Pilate : by what law? (18:28-19:16a)
• Death as arrival : God's recognition of Jesus
• Recognition and departure (John 20-21)
• John 20-21 : bridging the horizons
• The race to the empty tomb : acknowledging the absent one (20:10-)
• Mary Magdalene and the Gardener-Rabbi (20:11-18)
• The disciples : recognizers on a mission (20:19-25)
• Jesus and recognizing Thomas (20:26-29)
• John 21:1-14 : community with the absent Jesus
• The reader as Anagnostes.