John within Judaism : : religion, ethnicity, and the shaping of Jesus-oriented Jewishness in the fourth gospel / / by Wally V. Cirafesi.

• Superior document: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; Volume 112
• VerfasserIn: Cirafesi, Wally V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; Volume 112.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In John within Judaism , Wally V. Cirafesi offers a reading of the Gospel of John as an expression of the fluid and flexible nature of Jewish identity in Greco-Roman antiquity. While many have noted John's general Jewishness, few have given it a seat at the ideologically congested table of ancient Jewish practice and belief. By interrogating the concept of "Judaism" in relation to the complex categories of "religion" and "ethnicity," Cirafesi argues that John negotiates Jewishness using strategies of ethnic identity formation paralleled in other Jewish sources from the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods. In this process of negotiation, including its use of "high christology" and critique of Ioudaioi, John coalesces with other expressions of ancient Jewish identity and, thus, can be read "within Judaism.".

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: John and Judaism, Then and Now -- 1 The Questions, the Problems, and the Argument -- 2 Scholarly Conceptions of "John and Judaism" -- 2.1 The "Johannine Community" and the "Parting of the Ways" -- 2.2 Replacement, Supersessionism, and Expropriation in Johannine "Anti-Judaism" -- 2.3 John and the Concept of "Religion" -- 3 Some Prolegomena to the Study of John and Judaism -- 4 The Contribution of This Study -- Chapter 2 John and the Problem of Ancient "Judaism" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Judaism" in Antiquity: Religion and Ethnicity, Unity and Diversity -- 2.1 "Religion" or "Ethnicity"? -- 2.2 Unity and Diversity in Ancient "Judaism" -- 2.3 Modeling Diversity: "Priestly-Oriented" and "Diasporic" Modes of Identity -- 3 The Meaning Potential of Ioudaios in Antiquity: MethodologicalObservations -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Jewish People and the Children of Israel's Godin John -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ethnos and "Peoplehood" in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity: Between Genealogy and Way of Life -- 3 The Ioudaioi, Jewishness as Genealogy, and the Birth of God's Children in John's Gospel -- 3.1 Jewishness as Genealogy and the Boundaries of God's People in John 7:1-10:21 -- 3.1.1 John 7:14-24, 35: Eighth-Day Circumcision and a Mission to (Judaizing) Gentiles -- 3.1.2 John 8:30-59: Slaves, Mamzerim, and Doing as Abraham Did -- 3.1.3 John 9:1-41: Sinners, "Godfearers," and Doing the Will of the Jewish God -- 3.1.4 John 10:16: One Flock, One Shepherd, Different Sheep -- 3.1.5 Conclusions on John's Use of Ioudaioi -- 3.2 The Birth of God's Children and Their Relationship to the "World" -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 "We Have a Law …" (John 19:7) The Ancestral Law and Its Laws in John -- 1 Introduction: Ethnos and Law in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity.

2 The Ancestral Law in John -- 2.1 Moses as Lawgiver -- 2.2 Approaches to the Law in John: Statutory vs. Messianic Legal Hermeneutics -- 3 Ancestral Laws in John -- 3.1 Purity -- 3.2 The Ancestral Feasts and Shabbat -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Reterritorializing Jewish Identity John and the Ancestral Land -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ethnos and Land in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity -- 3 John and the Ancestral Land -- 3.1 Jesus as the King of Israel, the King of the Jews, and the Kingdom of God -- 3.2 The City of Jerusalem -- 3.3 Jesus's Death and the Regathering of the "Dispersed Children of God" -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The National Cult, the Public Assembly, and Jewish AssociationsJohn between the Institutions of Temple and Synagogue -- 1 Introduction -- 2 National Cult, Public Assemblies, and Associations in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity -- 2.1 "Common Judaism" and Public Synagogues in the Land of Israel -- 2.2 Jewish Association-Type Synagogues -- 2.2.1 Integrated Associations in the Land of Israel -- 2.2.2 Non-Integrated Associations in the Land of Israel -- 2.2.3 Jewish Associations outside the Land of Israel -- 2.3 Summary -- 3 National Cult, Public Assemblies, and Jewish Associations in John's Gospel -- 3.1 Strategies of Re-envisioning Sanctuary Space in John -- 3.2 The Temple and Public "Synagogue" Space in John -- 3.3 John and Aposynagōgos (9:22 -- 12:42 -- 16:2) -- 3.3.1 Aposynagōgos and 'Synagogue' in the Methodological Tradition of J. Louis Martyn and Raymond Brown -- 3.3.2 Aposynagōgos and 'Synagogue' in the Social Scientific and Rhetorical Traditions -- 3.3.3 Reading Aposynagōgos within Judaism -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- 1 What This Study Did Argue -- 2 What This Study Did Not Argue -- 3 What Next? How John Became 'Christian' -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources.