Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel According to John

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Preface [Seite 8]
3 - Table of Contents [Seite 10]
4 - Abbreviations [Seite 16]
5 - Chapter 1: The Focus of the Study [Seite 18]
5.1 - 1. Introduction [Seite 18]
5.2 - 2. History of Scholarship [Seite 19]
5.2.1 - 2.1 Sense Perception [Seite 19]
5.2.1.1 - 2.1.1 Sense Perception and Faith [Seite 19]
5.2.1.2 - 2.1.2 Symbolic Interpretation of Sense Perception [Seite 24]
5.2.1.3 - 2.1.3 The Range of Senses [Seite 27]
5.2.2 - 2.2 Testimony [Seite 30]
5.2.2.1 - 2.2.1 Testimony and Revelation [Seite 32]
5.2.2.2 - 2.2.2 Rhetorical Purpose and Technique [Seite 32]
5.2.3 - 2.3 Sense Perception and Testimony [Seite 35]
5.3 - 3. The Aim and the Structure of this Study [Seite 37]
5.3.1 - 3.1 The Aim of this Study [Seite 37]
5.3.2 - 3.2 The Structure of the Study [Seite 38]
6 - Chapter 2: An Overview of Sense Perception and Testimony [Seite 39]
6.1 - 1. Statistics and Distribution [Seite 39]
6.1.1 - 1.1 The Prologue (John 1:1-18) [Seite 40]
6.1.2 - 1.2 The Testimony of the Baptist and the First Disciples (John 1:19-51) [Seite 42]
6.1.3 - 1.3 The Public Ministry of Jesus (John 2-12) [Seite 44]
6.1.4 - 1.4 The Farewell Discourse (John 13-17) [Seite 46]
6.1.5 - 1.5 The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus (John 18-21) [Seite 47]
6.2 - 2. Problems with Sense Perception [Seite 49]
6.2.1 - 2.1 The Undefined Object [Seite 49]
6.2.2 - 2.2 The Vision of the Invisible: Glory, the Spirit and the Lamb of God [Seite 50]
6.2.3 - 2.3 The Perception of God by Privileged Witnesses [Seite 51]
6.2.4 - 2.4 The Perception of Signs within the Narrative [Seite 51]
6.2.5 - 2.5 Perception Pre- and Post-Easter [Seite 52]
6.3 - 3. John's Use of Testimony Language [Seite 53]
7 - Chapter 3: The Intended Audience and the Purpose of the Gospel [Seite 55]
7.1 - 1. John 20:30-31 [Seite 56]
7.1.1 - 1.1 Textual Variant in John 20:31a [Seite 57]
7.1.2 - 1.2 The Construction of ??? + ??????? [Seite 60]
7.2 - 2. John's Concept of Faith [Seite 63]
7.3 - 3. The Content of the Gospel [Seite 64]
7.3.1 - 3.1 Structure and Presentation [Seite 64]
7.3.2 - 3.2 The Language of Abiding and Indwelling [Seite 65]
7.3.3 - 3.3 Ambiguities and Allusiveness in Language [Seite 65]
7.3.4 - 3.4 The Paraclete [Seite 66]
7.3.5 - 3.5 The Mission Motif [Seite 67]
7.4 - 4. Conclusion [Seite 67]
8 - Chapter 4: Sense Perception, the Knowledge of God and Testimony in the Jewish Scriptures [Seite 69]
8.1 - 1. Theophany [Seite 71]
8.1.1 - 1.1 Jacob's Ladder ( ??? ) (Gen 28:10-17) [Seite 72]
8.1.2 - 1.2 Theophany on Mount Sinai [Seite 75]
8.1.2.1 - 1.2.1 The Israelites' Perception of God (Exodus 19-20) [Seite 75]
8.1.2.2 - 1.2.2 Moses' Perception of God (Exodus 33-34) [Seite 78]
8.2 - 2. The Exodus Miracles [Seite 80]
8.3 - 3. Communal Vision in Deuteronomy [Seite 84]
8.4 - 4. The Tabernacle and the Ark of Testimony [Seite 87]
8.5 - 5. Prophetic Sign-Acts [Seite 90]
8.6 - 6. The Book of Isaiah [Seite 94]
8.6.1 - 6.1 The Motif of Blindness and Deafness [Seite 96]
8.6.2 - 6.2 The Motif of Light and Darkness [Seite 99]
8.6.3 - 6.3 The Motif of Trial and Sense Perception [Seite 100]
8.7 - 7. Conclusion [Seite 102]
9 - Chapter 5: Sense Perception and Testimony in the Graeco-Roman World [Seite 104]
9.1 - 1. Techniques in Judicial Oratory to 'bring before the eyes' the thing told: ???????? and ???????? [Seite 106]
9.1.1 - 1.1 ???????? [Seite 106]
9.1.2 - 1.2 ???????? [Seite 108]
9.2 - 2. Rhetorical Appeal to Emotion [Seite 110]
9.3 - 3. Ways to Achieve ???????? [Seite 114]
9.4 - 4. An Analysis of Plato's Apology and Cicero's Verrine Orations [Seite 118]
9.4.1 - 4.1 Plato's Apology [Seite 118]
9.4.1.1 - 4.1.1 Repetition and the Presence of the Crowd [Seite 119]
9.4.1.2 - 4.1.2 Repetition, Contrast and Creating a Pictorial Image by Noting Particular Features of Actions and Objects [Seite 120]
9.4.1.3 - 4.1.3 Verbal Cues to Prompt Imagination [Seite 122]
9.4.1.4 - 4.1.4 Repetition with a Description of Sudden Actions [Seite 122]
9.4.2 - 4.2 Cicero's Verrine Orations [Seite 125]
9.4.2.1 - 4.2.1 Using Dialogues, Contrast and Creating a Pictorial Image by Noting Particular Features of Actions and Objects [Seite 126]
9.4.2.2 - 4.2.2 Creating a Pictorial Image by Noting Particular Features of Actions and Objects and Mentioning the Presence of a Crowd [Seite 128]
9.4.2.3 - 4.2.3 Contrast [Seite 130]
9.4.2.4 - 4.2.4 Using Verbal Cues to Trigger Imagination [Seite 132]
9.4.2.5 - 4.2.5 Repetition and the Presence of the crowd [Seite 133]
9.5 - 5. Conclusion [Seite 134]
10 - Chapter 6: The Theological Significance of Sense Perception [Seite 137]
10.1 - 1. The Theological Significance of Jesus' Sense Perception and Testimony [Seite 138]
10.1.1 - 1.1 Jesus' Divine Origin and His Exegesis of God [Seite 138]
10.1.2 - 1.2 Jesus' Perception of God [Seite 145]
10.1.2.1 - 1.2.1 Jesus Sees the Father (John 5:19-20, 37 [Seite 146]
10.1.2.2 - 1.2.2 Jesus Hears the Father (John 8:26, 40) [Seite 149]
10.1.2.3 - 1.2.3 Seeing Jesus is Seeing the Father (John 14:7-11 [Seite 150]
10.1.3 - 1.3 Jesus' Testimony [Seite 151]
10.1.4 - 1.4 Jesus' Perception of the First Disciples [Seite 154]
10.2 - 2. Characters Who 'Saw and Testified' to Jesus [Seite 157]
10.2.1 - 2.1 The Baptist as a Privileged Witness [Seite 158]
10.2.2 - 2.2 The Beloved Disciple as a Privileged Witness [Seite 162]
10.2.3 - 2.3 Conclusion [Seite 163]
10.3 - 3. The Ideology of the Narrator [Seite 164]
10.4 - 4. Sense Perception and Spiritual Insight [Seite 166]
11 - Chapter 7: Testimony During Jesus' Public Ministry [Seite 167]
11.1 - 1. Signs and Faith [Seite 168]
11.1.1 - 1.1 Changing Water into Wine [Seite 172]
11.1.2 - 1.2 Healing the Official's Son [Seite 177]
11.1.3 - 1.3 Healing the Paralysed Man [Seite 182]
11.1.4 - 1.4 Feeding the Five Thousand [Seite 184]
11.1.5 - 1.5 Healing the Blind Man [Seite 187]
11.1.6 - 1.6 The Raising of Lazarus [Seite 190]
11.2 - 2. Other Testimonies [Seite 193]
11.2.1 - 2.1 The Samaritans and Their Testimony (John 4:7-30, 4:39-42) [Seite 193]
11.2.2 - 2.2 The Cleansing of the Temple [Seite 194]
11.2.3 - 2.3 The Anointing of Jesus [Seite 195]
11.3 - 3. The Close of Jesus' Public Ministry [Seite 197]
11.4 - 4. Conclusion [Seite 198]
12 - Chapter 8: Witnessing the Passion, Death and Resurrection [Seite 200]
12.1 - 1. The Absence of Jesus and the Coming of the Spirit [Seite 201]
12.1.1 - 1.1 Promise of the Paraclete [Seite 201]
12.1.2 - 1.2 'Doubting Thomas' and Later Generations of Disciples [Seite 206]
12.1.2.1 - 1.2.1 The Character of Thomas (John 11:16 [Seite 206]
12.1.2.2 - 1.2.2 The Meaning of John 20:29 [Seite 213]
12.1.2.3 - 1.2.3 Conclusion [Seite 216]
12.2 - 2. Sense Perception and Testimony [Seite 217]
12.2.1 - 2.1 Jesus' Testimony to the Truth [Seite 217]
12.2.1.1 - 2.1.1 The Use of '???????? in Jesus' Passion, Death and Resurrection [Seite 218]
12.2.2 - 2.2 The Disciples' Testimony to Jesus: Models of Seeing and Believing [Seite 221]
12.2.3 - 2.3 A Prophetic Sign and Its Imitation in the Life of the Church [Seite 225]
12.2.3.1 - 2.3.1 Footwashing as a Prophetic Sign-Act [Seite 226]
12.2.3.2 - 2.3.2 Vivid Description of Footwashing [Seite 228]
12.2.4 - 2.4 Sense Perception and Testimony in Johannine Tradition [Seite 230]
12.2.4.1 - 2.4.1 Sense Perception and Testimony in John 21 [Seite 231]
12.2.4.2 - 2.4.2 Sense Perception and Testimony in 1 John [Seite 232]
12.3 - 3. Conclusion [Seite 233]
13 - Chapter 9: Conclusion [Seite 235]
14 - Bibliography [Seite 240]
14.1 - Primary Sources [Seite 240]
14.2 - Secondary Sources [Seite 241]
15 - Index of References [Seite 258]
15.1 - Old Testament [Seite 258]
15.2 - New Testament [Seite 261]
15.3 - Other Ancient Sources [Seite 265]
16 - Index of Modern Authors [Seite 268]
17 - Index of Subjects [Seite 272]