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The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Given all that has been written about the Gospel of John over the past twenty centuries, can anything more possibly be said about it? Yes, says Jerome Neyrey—by reading this “maverick Gospel” in terms of ancient rhetoric and by viewing it in terms of cultural anthropology. By interpreting the text in these two fresh ways, Neyrey distinctively illuminates the Gospel of John, casting new light on...

Past consideration of Johannine characters regarded them as either symbolic or representative figures;1 now they are studied according to literary theory.2 This study contributes to those efforts with insights drawn from ancient rhetoric, in particular from the encomium genre of the progymnasmata. The encomium, to my knowledge, has been rarely used in interpreting the Gospels, although it ought
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