The Figure of Abraham in John 8: Text and Intertext 1st Edition Ruth Sheridan

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0567238067
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0567238061
• Author(s): Ruth Sheridan

In the Gospel of John, the character of Jesus repeatedly comes into conflict with a group pejoratively designated as ‘the Jews’. In chapter 8 of the Gospel this conflict could be said to reach a head, with Jesus labeling the Jews as children ‘of the devil’ (8:44) – a verse often cited as epitomizing early Christian anti-Judaism. Using methods derived from modern and post-modern literary criticism Ruth Sheridan examines textual allusions to the biblical figures of Cain and Abraham in John 8:1-59. She pays particular attention to how these allusions give shape to the Gospel’s alleged and infamous anti-Judaism (exemplified in John 8:44). Moreover, the book uniquely studies the subsequent reception in the Patristic and Rabbinic literature, not only of John 8, but also of the figures of Cain and Abraham. It shows how these figures are linked in Christian and Jewish imagination in the formative centuries in which the .

Table contents:

1 Introduction
The range of Abraham’s post-biblical ‘afterlives’
Abraham in the Gospel of John: A survey of the secondary literature
Full-length studies: Horatio Lona and Tineke de Lange
Shorter studies on Abraham in John 8
Shorter studies: Abraham in the narrative and communal worlds of John 8
Focused studies: The ‘seed of Abraham’ in John 8.31-34
Focused studies: The ‘works of Abraham’ (8.39-47)
Focused studies: Abraham saw and rejoiced (John 8.56-58)
Summary and ways forward
The purpose of this book: Outline and argument
2 Theoretical foundations: Intertextuality
Introduction
Reflecting on comparative reasoning in textual analysis
Intertextuality
Roland Barthes’s theorization of intertextuality
Textual analysis
Writerly and readerly texts

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