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Semeia 53: The Fourth Gospel from a Literary Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

The extended participial clauses in vv. 1–3 weave together the setting and the report of what Jesus knew. They also locate the footwashing in relation to Jesus’ knowledge. The piling up of participial clauses gives the introduction “a most solemn effect” (Lindars:448). The delay in the action of the scene caused by the extended introduction is prolonged by the detailed description in v. 4 of Jesus’ preparations, discarding his garments and wrapping the towel about himself. V. 4, therefore, begins
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