The Raising of Lazarus and the Passion of Jesus in John 11 and 12 (2003 Burke), book

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The Raising of Lazarus and the Passion of Jesus in John 11 and 12 (2003) is a book by Alexander J. Burke.

Abstract

"This study holds that the fourth evangelist adopted and combined various traditions in chapters 11 and 12 into a single, unified eschatological statement, separately and specially conceived, as a complex literary and theological hinge of John’s Gospel, a bridge between Christ’s ministry to the world and his ministry to his disciples. The extent and unity of this statement has been disguised by the tendency to apply to John a pericopean mentality suitable for the Synoptics but foreign to John. When John 11 and 12 are viewed as a single, eschatological statement, an analysis of its three dominant literary forms (plot structure, sign and dialogue structure, and narrative dramatic structure) can help establish that the passage of 10:40-12:50 constitutes a tightly-knit literary unity. John shapes Jesus’ final discourse, 12:44-50 primarily as the natural conclusion of his eschatological statement, and secondarily as a summary of chapters 1-12 because the insertion of 11 and 12 is itself designed as the climax and summary of chapters 1-12. This new interpretation gives the passage a tight and comprehensive fit with the whole of John’s Gospel."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 2003 (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity, 59).

Contents

Preface

  • 1. The Shaping of the Major Turning Point in John’s Gospel
  • 2. Tradition and Composition I: The Raising of Lazarus
  • 3. Tradition and Composition II: The Aftermath of the Raising of Lazarus
  • 4. The Literary Structure of John 11 and 12
  • 5. The Narrative Theology of John 11 and 12
  • 6. Conclusion: Testing the Validity of a New Interpretation

Bibliography -- Subject and Author Indices

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