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 anci...

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.