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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...

would be displayed before the world. The Gospel narrative is therefore an extension of Jesus’ revelatory function. Throughout this chapter and again in John 18:10–11 Peter is characterized as one who does not understand Jesus’ death. He therefore does not understand where Jesus was going (i.e., his return to the Father) nor why he cannot follow him. Because he did not understand that Jesus was going to his death, he could not understand the footwashing (13:6–11). Now he cannot understand Jesus’ departure.
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