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Characterization in the Gospels: Reconceiving Narrative Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

reading. Where appropiate, I will make comments relevant to issues of characterization. Narrative criticism has come to be understood as (1) the analysis of the storyworld of a narrative and (2) the analysis of its implied rhetorical impact on readers. First, the analysis of the storyworld focuses on the world inside a narrative with its own times and places, its own characters, its past and future, its own sets of values, and its series of events moving forward in some meaningful way. This storyworld
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