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Characterizing Jesus

Author : Alicia D Myers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567103897
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Characterizing Jesus written by Alicia D Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, Myers approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can assist in understanding the ways in which Scripture is employed to support the presentation of Jesus. It offers further evidence in favour of the Gospel's use of rhetoric (particularly the practices of synkrisis, ekpharsis, and prosopopoiia), and gives scholars a new way to use rhetoric to better understand the use of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel and the New Testament as a whole. The book proceeds in three parts. First, it examines ancient Mediterranean practices of narration and characterization in relationship to the Gospel, concluding with an analysis of the Johannine prologue. In the second and third parts, it investigates explicit appeals to Scripture that are made both in and outside of Jesus' discourses. Through these analyses, Myers contends that the pervasive presence of Scripture in quotations, allusions, and references acts as corroborating evidence supporting the evangelist's presentation of Jesus.

Mark's Jesus

Author : Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481303545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mark's Jesus written by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted biblical scholar Elizabeth Struthers Malbon asks a literary question in this landmark volume: how does the Markan narrative characterise Jesus? Through a close narrative analysis, she carefully examines various ways the Gospel discloses its central character. The result is a multi-layered Markan narrative christology, focusing not only on what the narrator and other characters say about Jesus (pro-jected christology), but also on what Jesus says in response to what these others say to and about him (deflected christology), what Jesus says instead about himself and God (refracted christology), what Jesus does (enacted christology), and how what other characters do is related to what Jesus says and does (reflected christology). Holding significant implications for those who wish to use Mark's Gospel to make claims about the historical Jesus, as well as for those who wish to use Mark's Gospel to construct confessions about the church's belief, Malbon's research is a groundbreaking work of scholarship.

The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews

Author : Brian Small
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004264450
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews written by Brian Small and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews Brian Small applies the tools of literary and rhetorical criticism to reconstruct the author of Hebrew’s portrayal of Jesus’ character. The author of Hebrews uses a variety of literary and rhetorical devices in order to develop his characterization of Jesus. The portrait that emerges is that Jesus is a person of exemplary character, who exhibits both divine and human character traits. Some of the traits reveal Jesus’ greatness while others reveal his moral excellence. Jesus’ exemplary character plays a prominent role in the author’s argument and has profound implications for his audience. Jesus’ character produces many benefits for his followers and his character entails certain obligations from his followers.

Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John

Author : Christopher W. Skinner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056725965X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Book Synopsis Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John by : Christopher W. Skinner

Download or read book Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John written by Christopher W. Skinner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines characters in the Fourth Gospel and provides an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods. Divided into two sections, the book first considers method and theory, followed by exegetical character studies using a literary or reader-oriented method. It summarizes the state of the discussion, examines obstacles to arriving at a comprehensive theory of character in the Fourth Gospel, compares different approaches, and compiles the diverse methodologies into one comparative study. Through this detailed exegesis, the various theories will come alive, and the merits (or deficiencies) of each approach will be available to the reader. This volume is both a comprehensive study in narrative/reader-oriented theories, and a study in the application of those theories as they apply to characterization. Summing up current research on characters and characterization in the Fourth Gospel, this book also provides a comprehensive presentation of different approaches to character that have developed in recent years.

The Rhetoric of Characterization of God, Jesus and Jesus' Disciples in the Gospel of Mark

Author : Paul L. Danove
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567112101
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Characterization of God, Jesus and Jesus' Disciples in the Gospel of Mark written by Paul L. Danove and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study develops a method for analyzing the semantic and narrative rhetoric of repetition and the narrative rhetoric and function of characterization and applies this method in studies of the characterization of God, Jesus, and Jesus' disciples in the Gospel of Mark. The studies of characterization distinguish beliefs that are assumed for the audience from beliefs that the narration cultivates for the audience, identifies the rhetorical relationships and organization of cultivated beliefs, and clarifies the contribution of each character's portrayal to the overall narrative development of Mark. The study then considers the contribution of the characterization of the women at the tomb to the portrayal of Jesus' disciples and narrative developments. A concluding inquiry investigates the possible applications of the studies of characterization for determining the rhetorical exigency of the narration and for formulating statements of Mark's proposed theology.

The Rhetoric of Characterization of God, Jesus and Jesus' Disciples in the Gospel of Mark

Author : Paul L. Danove
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567028100
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts

Author : Frank Dicken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567663922
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts by : Frank Dicken

Download or read book Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts written by Frank Dicken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all skilful authors, the composer of the biblical books of Luke and Acts understood that a good story requires more than a gripping plot - a persuasive narrative also needs well-portrayed, plot-enhancing characters. This book brings together a set of new essays examining characters and characterization in those books from a variety of methodological perspectives. The essays illustrate how narratological, sociolinguistic, reader-response, feminist, redaction, reception historical, and comparative literature approaches can be fruitfully applied to the question of Luke's techniques of characterization. Theoretical and methodological discussions are complemented with case studies of specific Lukan characters. Together, the essays reflect the understanding that while many of the literary techniques involved in characterization attest a certain universality, each writer also brings his or her own unique perspective and talent to the portrayal and use of characters, with the result that analysis of a writer's characters and style of characterization can enhance appreciation of that writer's work.

The Characterization of God in Acts

Author : Ling Cheng
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620323494
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Characterization of God in Acts written by Ling Cheng and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the plot-oriented nature of the Acts narrative, a key thought behind this book is how God is revealed in the deployment of characters and events. God's supreme saving will and mission plan determine the development of human history as well as the narrative; God's sovereign authority and power governs the movement of characters and the development of events and thus assures the fulfilment of his salvific plan. From the carrying out of the divine redemptive plan emerges a God who is invisible-yet-perceivable, dominant-yet-cogent, and continuous-yet-changing.

Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Characterization of the Disciples

Author : Zach Preston Eberhart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004692037
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Characterization of the Disciples by : Zach Preston Eberhart

Download or read book Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Characterization of the Disciples written by Zach Preston Eberhart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reimagines the first-century reception of the Gospel of Mark within a reconstructed (yet hypothetical) performance event. In particular, it considers the disciples' character and characterization through the lens of performance criticism. Questions concerning the characterization of the disciples have been relatively one-sided in New Testament scholarship, in favor of their negative characterization. This project demonstrates why such assumptions need not be necessary when we (re-)consider the oral/aural milieu in which the Gospel of Mark was first composed and received by its earliest audiences.

Compassion and the Characterization of the Markan Jesus

Author : Jonathan Bryant
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004699104
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Compassion and the Characterization of the Markan Jesus written by Jonathan Bryant and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the Gospel of Mark make specific and repeated reference to the compassion of Jesus in the miracle stories? This volume discusses the function that compassion has in the Markan characterization of Jesus, particularly in how the terminology employed depicts Jesus as entering the suffering of others. In doing so, it underscores how this portrayal is exceptional among the stories of miracle workers in ancient Greco-Roman and Jewish literature. In Mark, this compassion toward the suffering other is a central feature of the kingdom of God, an attribute the Markan audience is challenged to emulate.

The Characterization of Peter’s Leadership and Ethics in Acts 1–12, 15

Author : Benea Alukwe
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839739940
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Book Synopsis The Characterization of Peter’s Leadership and Ethics in Acts 1–12, 15 by : Benea Alukwe

Download or read book The Characterization of Peter’s Leadership and Ethics in Acts 1–12, 15 written by Benea Alukwe and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is in desperate need of trustworthy leaders – men and women of character, who demonstrate honesty, humility, courage, and compassion. Such leaders are crucial to the success and stability of governments, corporate bodies, institutions, and faith communities. In this study, Dr. Benea Alukwe explores the principles at work in Peter’s leadership of the early church as it transformed from a frightened group of secret disciples into an indestructible force with world-changing potential. Examining the depiction of Peter’s character in Acts 1–12 and 15, he demonstrates the parallels between Peter’s leadership values and those practiced by the Qumran community as recorded in the Damascus Document. The ethical foundation depicted in both texts offers a powerful counter-cultural narrative of leadership capable of revitalizing nations, societies, and the church itself.

Dr. Bilal Philips’ The True Message of Jesus Christ: A Reply, Refutation and Rebuttal

Author : A. Yousef Al-Katib
Publisher : TellerBooks
ISBN 13 : 1681090910
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Bilal Philips’ The True Message of Jesus Christ: A Reply, Refutation and Rebuttal written by A. Yousef Al-Katib and published by TellerBooks. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The True Message of Jesus Christ, Dr. Bilal Philips claims that Jesus Christ was merely a prophet of Allah who reaffirmed the central message that was later revealed to Muhammad. Dr. Philips argues that although Jesus claimed to be the Son of God in the Bible, modern translations of the Bible are corruptions of the original revelations given by Allah. Only the Qur’an, which downgrades Jesus’ status from the Son of God to a prophet, reflects God’s true, uncorrupted message. This Reply to The True Message of Jesus Christ demonstrates that Dr. Philips’ arguments are flawed and suffer from serious weaknesses on multiple levels. First, Dr. Philips’ claims are not historically grounded. Second, he misconstrues the text and meanings of the Bible. Third, he employs circular reasoning to support his assertions. Fourth, the claims Dr. Philips makes with respect to the corruption of the Bible conflict with even the teachings of the Qur’an on the divine inspiration of the Torah and other Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Some of Dr. Philips’ claims about the Bible are correct, though ultimately, they relate to minor or ancillary points, such as discrepancies in extant biblical manuscripts as to a king’s age when he began to rule. While such minor discrepancies exist, they should be expected in the copying and transmission of texts over thousands of years and they do not suggest deliberate falsification of the text for dogmatic purposes. Such discrepancies do not alter the overall message of the Bible—that “God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life” (John 3:16). The True Message of Jesus Christ fails to persuasively demonstrate that man has corrupted the Bible, that the Qur’an is God’s true and divinely inspired book and that Jesus’ true message is that He is merely a prophet of Allah, rather than God’s sacrificial lamb, offered “as the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world” (1 John 2:2). Ultimately, the book fails to defeat the hope given to all who put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

Characterizing Jesus

Author : Alicia D. Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Characterizing Jesus written by Alicia D. Myers and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores how the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, it approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can assist in understanding the ways in which Scripture is employed to support the presentation of Jesus. This study, therefore, crosses paths with three areas of current Johannine and New Testament scholarship: (1) literary-critical studies on the Fourth Gospel's characterization of Jesus; (2) studies on the presence (or absence) of Greco-Roman rhetoric in the Gospel; and (3) intertextual studies on John and the New Testament. This dissertation contributes to all three of these areas by expanding on how rhetorical practices affect ancient characterization, demonstrating further evidence in favor of the Gospel's use of rhetoric (particularly the practices of synkrisis, ekphrasis, and prosopopoiia), and, in so doing, offering a new way to use rhetoric to better understand the use of Scripture in the Fourth Gospel and the New Testament as a whole. The dissertation accomplishes these tasks in three parts. First, it examines ancient Mediterranean practices of narration and characterization in relationship to the Gospel, concluding with an analysis of the Johannine prologue. In the second and third parts, the study investigates explicit appeals to Scripture made both in and outside of Jesus' discourses to discover how they contribute to the Gospel's presentation of its protagonist. Through these analyses, this study contends that the pervasive presence of Scripture in quotations, allusions, and references to key figures and events is meant to act as corroborating evidence supporting the evangelist's presentation of Jesus. Offering clarification of Jesus' words and actions--as well as of those reacting to Jesus within the narrative--Scripture contextualizes Jesus by means of well-known, comparative examples. In this way, Scripture testifies on behalf of the Johannine Jesus, consistently reinforcing the evangelist's initial presentation of his protagonist in John 1:1-18 and, therefore, increasing the credibility of his bios for his Gospel audience, even as it confounds other characters in the narrative itself.

Mark's Jesus

Author : Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark's Jesus written by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding significant implications for those who wish to use Mark's Gospel to make claims about the historical Jesus, as well as for those who wish to use Mark's Gospel to construct confessions about the church's belief, Malbon's research is a groundbreaking work of scholarship.--David Rhoads, Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago "Review of Biblical Literature"

Comparative Characterization in the Sermon on the Mount

Author : Arren Bennet Lawrence
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532613512
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Characterization in the Sermon on the Mount written by Arren Bennet Lawrence and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sermon on the Mount contains many comparisons. In this book, the functions of these comparisons are studied by the methodology called comparative characterization. Characterization is the way a character is characterized in a narrative. Comparative characterization is the characterization of a character using comparisons. In comparative characterization, another character is used as a foil to bring out a characteristic trait of a concerned character. Jesus characterized the ideal disciple in the Sermon on the Mount with many descriptions and imperatives. To characterize the ideal disciple Jesus used many comparisons and highlighted the characteristic features that embody the ideal disciple. The many comparisons used in the Sermon on the Mount are identified in this study through comparative characterization. In addition, the teleological purpose of the comparisons, which is to play as foil to the characterization of the ideal disciple, is identified and highlighted. Thus, this study identifies Jesus' characterization of the ideal disciple and his complex portrayal of the ideal disciple with the many uses of comparisons in the descriptions and imperatives of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.

The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews

Author : Brian C. Small
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9789004264441
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews written by Brian C. Small and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Characterization of Jesus in the Book of Hebrews Brian Small applies the tools of literary and rhetorical criticism to reconstruct the author of Hebrew's portrayal of Jesus' character. The author of Hebrews uses a variety of literary and rhetorical devices in order to develop his characterization of Jesus. The portrait that emerges is that Jesus is a person of exemplary character, who exhibits both divine and human character traits. Some of the traits reveal Jesus' greatness while others reveal his moral excellence. Jesus' exemplary character plays a prominent role in the author's argument and has profound implications for his audience. Jesus' character produces many benefits for his followers and his character entails certain obligations from his followers.

Encountering Jesus

Author : Cornelis Bennema
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451487495
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Encountering Jesus written by Cornelis Bennema and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying a comprehensive theory of character to the Gospel of John, Cornelis Bennema provides a fresh analysis of the characters and their responses to Jesus. While the majority of scholars view most Johannine characters as “flat,” Bennema demonstrates that many are complex, developing, and “round.” John’s broad array of characters correspond to people and their choices in real life in any culture and time. This book highlights how John’s Gospel seeks to challenge its readers about where they stand in relation to Jesus.