Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John - Paperback

by Steven A. Hunt (Editor), D. Francois Tolmie (Editor), Ruben Zimmerman (Editor)

Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John.

These essays present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others), but they also examine characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis (the men of the Samaritan woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more). Taken together, the essays shed new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew.

Author Biography

Steven A. Hunt is professor of New Testament at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts.

D. Francois Tolmie is professor of New Testament studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Ruben Zimmermann is professor of New Testament studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany.