Befriending the Beloved Disciple : A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John

by Reinhartz, Adele

• ISBN13: 9780826413192
• ISBN10: 0826413196
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

Adele Reinhartz has been studying and teaching the Gospel of John for many years. Earlier, she chose to ignore the love/hate relationship that the book provokes in her, a Jew, and took refuge in an "objective" historical-critical approach. At this stage her relationship to the Gospel was not so much a friendship as a business relationship. No longer willing to ignore the negative portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the text, nor the insight that her own Jewish identity inevitably does play a role in her work as an exegete, Reinhartz here explores the Fourth Gospel through the approach known as "ethical criticism," which is based on the metaphorical notion of the book as "friend" -- not "an easy, unquestioning companionship," but the kind of honest relationship in which ethical considerations are addressed, not avoided.

Author Biography

Adele Reinhartz is professor of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
Prologue	11	(6)
Reading as Relationship	17	(15)
The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple	32	(22)
The Beloved Disciple as Mentor: A Compliant Reading of the Fourth Gospel	54	(27)
The Beloved Disciple as Opponent: A Resistant Reading of the Fourth Gospel	81	(18)
The Beloved Disciple as Colleague: A Sympathetic Reading of the Fourth Gospel	99	(32)
The Beloved Disciple as Other: An Engaged Reading of the Fourth Gospel	131	(29)
Conclusion: Befriending the Beloved Disciple	160	(8)
Notes	168	(19)
Bibliography	187	(12)
Index of Ancient Literature	199	(4)
Index of Subjects	203	(2)
Index of Names	205