@article{1433104,
      note = {Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Vanderbilt  University, 2015 under title: Jesus and the others :  otherness and identity in the Gospel of John.},
      author = {Lim, Sung Uk,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1433104},
      title = {Otherness and identity in the Gospel of John /},
      abstract = {"In this book, Sung Uk Lim examines the narrative  construction of identity and otherness through ongoing  interactions between Jesus and the so-called others as  represented by the minor characters in the Gospel of John.  This study reconfigures the otherness of the minor  characters in order to reconstruct the identity of Jesus  beyond the exclusive binary of identity and otherness. The  recent trends in Johannine scholarship are deeply  entrenched in a dialectical framework of inclusion and  exclusion, perpetuating positive portrayals of Jesus and  negative portrayals of the minor characters. Read in this  light, Jesus is portrayed as a superior, omniscient, and  omnipotent character, whereas minor characters are depicted  as inferior, uncomprehending, and powerless. At the root of  such portrayals lies the belief that the Johannine  dualistic Weltanschauung warrants such a sharp  differentiation between Jesus and the minor characters. Lim  argues, to the contrary, that the multiple constructions of  otherness deriving from the minor characters make Jesus'  identity vulnerable to a constant process of  transformation. Consequently, John's minor characters  actually challenge and destabilize Johannine hierarchical  dualism within a both/and framework"--Back cover.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60286-4},
      recid = {1433104},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages)},
}