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.