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Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A Study in Literary Design is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book is an attempt to make some initial tracing of what the Gospel looks like through the lens of “secular” literary criticism. As an interdisciplinary study, the work is an effort to contribute to that dialogue by studying the narrative elements of the Fourth Gospel while interacting occasionally with current Johannine research. It is intended not as a challenge to historical criticism or...

defines Jesus’ identity further or highlights the nature of a particular response to him. This use of characterization allows one to observe analogies which create and break norms.94 When several characters who are colorfully different from one another respond to Jesus in a similar manner, it creates a type of response. The consequences of their response, whether depicted through Jesus’ words, dramatic action, or a comment from the narrator, serve as the author’s (or implied author’s) judgment on
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