A Theory Of Character In New Testament Narrative

Author : Cornelis Bennema
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451484304

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A Theory of Character in New Testament Narrative by Cornelis Bennema Pdf

In this study in three-dimensional character reconstruction, Cornelis Bennema presents a new theory of character in the New Testament literature. Although character has been the subject of focused literary-critical study of the New Testament since the 1970s, Bennema observes that there is still no consensus regarding how character should be understood in contemporary literary theory or in biblical studies. Many New Testament scholars seem to presume that characters in Greco-Roman literature are two-dimensional,”Aristotelian”; figures, unlike the well-rounded, psychologized individuals who appear in modern fiction. They continue nevertheless to apply contemporary literary theory to characters in ancient writings. Bennema here offers a full, comprehensive, and non-reductionist theory for the analysis, classification, and evaluation of characters in the New Testament.

Author : Matthew Ryan Hauge,Craig Evan Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699497

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Character Studies in the Gospel of Matthew by Matthew Ryan Hauge,Craig Evan Anderson Pdf

This volume examines a multitude of characters in Matthew's gospel and provides an in-depth look at the different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods. Beginning with an introduction on 'the properties of character' and the several aspects involved in the creation of person, the contributors provide a close reading of numerous characters and character types in the Gospel of Matthew. Including Mary, King Herod, John the Baptist, Jesus the Preacher, Jesus the Teacher, God the Father, the Roman Centurion, Peter, Women, Gentiles, Scribes and Pharisees, and Romans. Such close studies aid the understanding of different issues in Matthean characterization, while also charting the development of hermeneutical vistas that have developed in contemporary scholarship, resulting in a collection of exegetical character studies that are self-consciously working from a literary, narrative-critical, reader-oriented, or related methodology.

Author : Scot McKnight,Nijay K. Gupta
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493419807

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The State of New Testament Studies by Scot McKnight,Nijay K. Gupta Pdf

This book surveys the current landscape of New Testament studies, offering readers a concise guide to contemporary discussions. Bringing together a diverse group of experts, it covers research on the most important issues in New Testament studies, including new discipline areas, making it an ideal supplemental textbook for a variety of courses on the New Testament. Michael Bird, David Capes, Greg Carey, Lynn Cohick, Dennis Edwards, Michael Gorman, and Abson Joseph are among the contributors.

Author : Michal Beth Dinkler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300219913

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Literary Theory and the New Testament by Michal Beth Dinkler Pdf

A comprehensive case for a fresh literary approach to the New Testament For at least a half century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this important and illuminating work, Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary literary theory to enhance our understanding and interpretation of the New Testament texts. Dinkler provides an integrated approach to the relation between literary theory and biblical interpretation, employing a wide range of practical theories and methods. This indispensable work engages foundational concepts and figures, the historical contexts of various theoretical approaches, and ongoing literary scholarship into the twenty-first century. In Literary Theory and the New Testament, Dinkler assesses previous literary treatments of the New Testament and calls for a new phase of nuanced thinking about New Testament texts as both ancient and literary.

Author : Cato Gulaker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696533

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Satan, the Heavenly Adversary of Man by Cato Gulaker Pdf

Cato Gulaker employs narrative criticism to explore where the depiction of Satan found in the Book of Revelation is positioned on the axis of two divergent roles. The literary character of Satan is commonly perceived to gradually evolve from the first divine agents in the Hebrew Bible, representing the darker sides of the divine governing of affairs (Job 1–2; Zech 3; 1 Chr 21:1; Num 22:22, 32), to the full-blown enemy of God of the post-biblical era. However, Gulaker posits that texts referring to Satan in between these two poles are not uniform and diverge considerably. This book argues for a new way of perceiving Satan in Revelation that provides a more probable reading, as it creates less narrative dissonance than the alternative of the ancient combat myth/cosmic conflict between Satan and God. From this reading emerges a subdued Satan more akin to its Hebrew Bible hypotexts and Second Temple Judaism parallels – one that fits seamlessly with the theology, cosmology and the overarching plot of the narrative itself. Gulaker explores the functions of Satan in a text written relatively late compared to the rest of the New Testament, but with strong affinities to the Hebrew Bible, concluding that Satan is characterized more as the leash, rod, and sifting device in the hand of God, than as his enemy.

Author : D. Eric Lowdermilk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498208468

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Two Can Play That Game by D. Eric Lowdermilk Pdf

John 21 portrays seven disciples fishing all night yet catching nothing. In the morning, a shoreline stranger instructs them to recast their net. Surprisingly, the disciples fail to recognize him. After a miraculous catch and subsequent breakfast, however, there is no doubt as to who this stranger is. Jesus then questions Peter about his love and commissions him to feed Jesus' sheep. Using narrative criticism, Lowdermilk examines this recognition scene, asking, "How would a reader, well acquainted with recognition and deception as portrayed in Genesis, understand John 21?" He discards "trickster" terminology and argues that biblical recognition occurs within a context of "manipulation." After proposing a detailed taxonomy of manipulation, he ventures further and argues for patterns in Genesis where manipulators are "counter-manipulated" in a reciprocal manner, ironically similar to their own behavior, providing a transforming effect on the manipulator. These findings, plus a careful examination of Greek diminutives, inform Lowdermilk's new reading of John 21:1-19. Peter withholds his identity as a disciple in John 18 and later Jesus actively withholds his identity in ironic counter-manipulation, mirroring Peter's denials. Jesus' threefold questioning of Peter continues the haunting echoes of Peter's earlier denials. Will it result in a disciple transformed?

Author : Barbara Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567673596

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David's Capacity for Compassion by Barbara Green Pdf

In this book Barbara Green demonstrates how David is shown and can be read as emerging from a young naive, whose early successes grow into a tendency for actions of contempt and arrogance, of blindness and even cruelty, particularly in matters of cult. However, Green also shows that over time David moves closer to the demeanor and actions of wise compassion, more closely aligned with God. Leaving aside questions of historicity as basically undecidable Green's focus in her approach to the material is on contemporary literature. Green reads the David story in order, applying seven specific tools which she names, describes and exemplifies as she interprets the text. She also uses relevant hermeneutical theory, specifically a bridge between general hermeneutics and the specific challenges of the individual (and socially located) reader. As a result, Green argues that characters in the David narrative can proffer occasions for insight, wisdom, and compassion. Acknowledging the unlikelihood that characters like David and his peers, steeped in patriarchy and power, can be shown to learn and extend wise compassion, Green is careful to make explicit her reading strategies and offer space for dialogue and disagreement.

Author : Tekalign Duguma Negewo
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161617881

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Identity Formation and the Gospel of Matthew by Tekalign Duguma Negewo Pdf

Author : David Rhoads,Kari Syreeni
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1841270040

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Characterization in the Gospels by David Rhoads,Kari Syreeni Pdf

This volume examines characterization in the four Gospels and in the Sayings Gospel Q. Peter in Matthew, Lazarus in John, and Jesus as Son of Man in Q are examples of the characters studied. The general approach is narrative-critical. At the same time, each contribution takes special effort to widen the scope beyond the narrated world to include the text's ideological and real-life setting as well as its effective history. New ways of doing narrative criticism are thus proposed. The concluding essay by David Rhoads delineates the development and envisions the future of narrative criticism in Gospel studies.

Author : Jeannine K. Brown
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493423552

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The Gospels as Stories by Jeannine K. Brown Pdf

Popular writer and teacher Jeannine Brown shows how a narrative approach illuminates each of the Gospels, helping readers see the overarching stories. This book offers a corrective to tendencies to read the Gospels piecemeal, one story at a time. It is filled with numerous examples and visual aids that show how narrative criticism brings the text to life, making it an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on the Gospels. Readers will gain hands-on tools and perspectives to interpret the Gospels as whole stories.

Author : Steve Walton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567702838

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Reading Acts Theologically by Steve Walton Pdf

Steve Walton has consistently focused his research and scholarship upon the theological perspective of Acts, while considering the book's nature and focus, its portrait of the early Christian communities and their mission in the culturally varied first-century world, and its major theological themes. Walton now collects several of his key essays into an expansive and coherent perspective, bringing together studies published over nearly two decades during his time of study and reflection in the process of writing the Word Biblical Commentary on Acts. The collection begins with an exploration of what 'reading Acts theologically' means, the divine perspective of Acts, and how Luke theologizes through narrative. Walton presents analyses covering the nature of the early Church and the main terms used by the communities; the believers' sharing of possessions; early Christian attitudes to the Jewish temple; decision-making among the earliest Christians; and the church's engagement with the Roman empire and its representatives. This volume studies theological themes in Acts such as Jesus' role as a character in the text while also located in heaven, and the cosmology and anthropology communicated by Acts, thus providing a new reflection on the early Christian understanding of God, Jesus and humanity.

Author : Frank Dicken,Julia Snyder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567675651

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Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts by Frank Dicken,Julia Snyder Pdf

Like all skilful authors, the composer of the biblical books of Luke and Acts understood that a good story requires more than a gripping plot - a persuasive narrative also needs well-portrayed, plot-enhancing characters. This book brings together a set of new essays examining characters and characterization in those books from a variety of methodological perspectives. The essays illustrate how narratological, sociolinguistic, reader-response, feminist, redaction, reception historical, and comparative literature approaches can be fruitfully applied to the question of Luke's techniques of characterization. Theoretical and methodological discussions are complemented with case studies of specific Lukan characters. Together, the essays reflect the understanding that while many of the literary techniques involved in characterization attest a certain universality, each writer also brings his or her own unique perspective and talent to the portrayal and use of characters, with the result that analysis of a writer's characters and style of characterization can enhance appreciation of that writer's work.

Author : Chris Seglenieks
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161597589

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Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion by Chris Seglenieks Pdf

"In this volume, Christopher Seglenieks offers a study of the complex meaning in John's Gospel of genuine belief, arguing it includes cognitive, relational, ethical, ongoing, and public aspects. He compares it with Graeco-Roman religious practices and highlights the distinctiveness of Johannine belief whose features are motivated by John's picture of Jesus." --

Author : Cornelis Bennema
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451470062

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Encountering Jesus by Cornelis Bennema Pdf

Applying a comprehensive theory of character to the Gospel of John, Cornelis Bennema provides a fresh analysis of the characters and their responses to Jesus. While the majority of scholars view most Johannine characters as flat, Bennema demonstrates that many are complex, developing, and round. Johns broad array of characters correspond to people and their choices in real life in any culture and time. This book highlights how Johns Gospel seeks to challenge its readers about where they stand in relation to Jesus.

Author : Zach Preston Eberhart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004692039

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Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Characterization of the Disciples by Zach Preston Eberhart Pdf

This volume reimagines the first-century reception of the Gospel of Mark within a reconstructed (yet hypothetical) performance event. In particular, it considers the disciples' character and characterization through the lens of performance criticism. Questions concerning the characterization of the disciples have been relatively one-sided in New Testament scholarship, in favor of their negative characterization. This project demonstrates why such assumptions need not be necessary when we (re-)consider the oral/aural milieu in which the Gospel of Mark was first composed and received by its earliest audiences.