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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Contributors; Chapter 1 The semeiotics of history: C.H. Dodd on the origins and character of the Fourth Gospel; Jesus to John: Dodd's model of oral tradition ; Stage 1: framed, fluid memory; Stage 2: fixed forms and sequences; Tradition to Gospel: John's compositional strategies ; John's social location ; John's purpose and audience ; 'Signs' and discourses ; John to Jesus: Dodd's method of analysis ; Premise: John has drawn from oral tradition; Test 1: does this pericope utilize terms and/or themes drawn from testimonia?; Test 2: is this pericope built on a traditional outline? |
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Test 3: does this pericope evidence close parallels with the Synoptics?Test 4: does this pericope bear an excess of distinctly Johannine features?; Test 5: does this pericope include or create narrative aporias?; Test 6: does it seem intuitively likely that this scene or detail is based on tradition?; The Gospel of John and the Jesus of history; In favour of John's claims ; Against John's claims ; Part I Approaching the problem: reflections on Doddś context and method; Chapter 2 C.H. Dodd as a precursor to narrative criticism; Reading Dodd reading John; The Proem; The Book of Signs |
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The Book of the PassionDodd's reading of John as a step toward narrative criticism ; Works cited; Chapter 3 Progress and paradox: C.H. Dodd and Rudolf Bultmann on history, the Jesus tradition, and the Fourth Gospel; History: the revealed and the hidden; Tradition about Jesus: continuity and discontinuity; The Fourth Gospel: plausibility and offence; Conclusion; Works cited; Chapter 4 Symbolism in Johnś Gospel: an evaluation of Dodd's contribution ; Determining the meaning of symbols |
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Dodd and more recent literary approaches to symbolsAre symbols 'open' for interpretation?; Narratives as symbols?; Conclusion; Works cited; Chapter 5 C.H. Dodd on John 13:16 (and 15:20): St John's knowledge of Matthew revisited ; C.H. Dodd on John and the Synoptics: from the 'old look' to the 'new look' in the Fourth Gospel2 ; Dodd's interpretation of the 'Herrnwort' in John 13:16 (and 15:20) ; A L̀euven answer ́to Dodd's interpretation of the servant-master saying12 ; Differences between the Johannine and Matthean logion |
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Similarities between the Johannine and Matthean context of the logionThe saying source Q and the Matthean redaction; John 13:16 and 20 in the Johannine and Matthean context; Conclusion; Appendix 1 John 13:16 (15:20) and Parallels (Matt. 10:24-5; Luke 6:40)18; Appendix 2 John 15:18-21 and Matt. 10:22-519; Works cited; Chapter 6 John and the rabbis revisited; C.H. Dodd on John and rabbinic Judaism; Questions of method: problems, shifts and challenges; John, the rabbis, and the Name of God; Current trends and future prospects; Works cited; Chapter 7 Characters who count: the case of Nicodemus |
| Summary |
C.H. Dodd's Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically biblical scholars have concentrated on the Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke. However, Dodd's book encouraged scholars to take John seriously as a source for the life of Jesus. This volume both reflects upon and looks beyond Dodd's writings to address the implications, limitations and potential of his groundbreaking research and its programmatic approach to charting a course for future research on t |
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Print version record |
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Dodd, C. H. (Charles Harold), 1884-1973.
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Dodd, C. H. (Charles Harold), 1884-1973 fast |
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Bible. John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. John fast |
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New Testament scholars -- England
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New Testament scholars
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England
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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Williams, Catrin
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| ISBN |
9781107291355 |
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1107291356 |
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