{"product_id":"recognizing-the-stranger-recognition-scenes-in-the-gospel-of-john-9789004226883","title":"Recognizing the Stranger: Recognition Scenes in the Gospel of John","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecognizing the Stranger is the first monographic study of recognition scenes and motifs in the Gospel of John. The recognition type-scene (anagnōrisis) was a common feature in ancient drama and narrative, highly valued by Aristotle as a touching moment of truth, e.g., in Oedipus’ tragic self-discovery and Odysseus’ happy homecoming. The book offers a reconstruction of the conventions of the genre and argues that it is one of the most recurrent and significant literary forms in the Gospel. When portraying Jesus as the divine stranger from heaven, the Gospel employs and transforms the formal and ideological structures of the type-scene in order to show how Jesus’ true identity can be recognized behind the half-mask of his human appearance.  Originally published in hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Displaying a masterful command of ancient literature, Larsen has produced a major contribution to the literature on the Fourth Gospel, displaying admirable literary sensitivity and conceptual sophistication.\"                             Harold W. Attridge, Yale University  ******  ”In this engaging and articulate study Kasper Bro Larsen moves with confidence between contemporary literary theory, the classical discussions and exempla of 'recognition scenes', recent scholarship on the Fourth Gospel, and the detailed analysis of the text of John. He demonstrates persuasively how such scenes should not be viewed merely as aesthetic devices but how they fulfil a focal role in the Fourth Gospel's call to faith in the one who can no longer be seen in person. Recognizing the Stranger makes a decisive contribution not just to the study of the Fourth Gospel in its ancient literary environment but, more importantly, to how the Gospel through its narrative structures addresses profound theological questions about the possibility of faith and knowledge, and about the one in whom faith is held.”               Judith Lieu, Professor of Divinity, Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecognitions  Abbreviations  Introduction.  Odysseus’ Scar and Jesus’ Wound Marks  Previous Studies in Johannine Recognition.  The Present Study: Aim, Method, and Outline  Chapter One. 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  Summary  Chapter Two. 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  Chapter Three. 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  Chapter Four. Recognition and Departure (John 20–21). .  John 20–21: Bridging the Horizons  The Race to the Empty Tomb: Acknowledging the Absent One (20:1–10)  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  Conclusion  Bibliography  Ancient Texts  Modern Works  Index of Ancient Texts  Subject Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210629931351,"sku":"9789004226883","price":44.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/recognizing-the-stranger-recognition-scenes-in-the-gospel-of-john-9789004226883","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}