Otherness and identity in the Gospel of John / Sung Uk Lim.
Lim, Sung Uk, author.
2021
BS2615.6.I33 L56 2021eb
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Title Otherness and identity in the Gospel of John / Sung Uk Lim.
Author Lim, Sung Uk, author.
ISBN 9783030602864 (electronic bk.)
3030602869 (electronic bk.)
3030602850
9783030602857
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60286-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-60286-4 doi
Call Number BS2615.6.I33 L56 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 226.5/06
Summary "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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: why otherness matters in biblical interpretation
Interpretive frameworks for otherness and identity in the Johannine narrative
Reading the otherness in-between
Reading the otherness within
Reading the otherness without
Reading the otherness beyond
Conclusion: reconfiguring otherness, identity, and solidarity in biblical interpretation and beyond.

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