The Narrative Jesus

Introduction: Bible and semiotics; history and semiotics; exegesis and semiotics; content of the study. Part 1 Narrative exegesis: narratology - communication and narration, narrativity and narrative; text and narrative - the Gospel text, the Gospel narrative; narrative method - narrative utterances, the pivot point, the subject of being, the subject of doing. Part 2 The wonder worker: story and narrative - the miracle story, the wonder narrative; the roles of the wonder narrative - genre and role configuration, the discursive role configuration, actor and role, excursus - the basic semiotic model. Part 3 The Proclaimer: the heirarchy of proclaiming - the thematic proclaimer-roles, the hierarchy of narration; the Gospel of God - the narrative proclaimer-roles A, the content of the proclaiming, the narrative proclaimer-roles B, God's messenger; the Gospel of Jesus Christ - the content of the Gospel, the foundation of the proclaiming, from disciple to apostle. Part 4 The Saviour: salvation - saviour - designation and role, the content of salvation; the project of salvation - the death of the Cross, the Resurrection, the Baptism/the Annointment; soteriology - the local soteriology, the global soteriology. Part 5 The Christ myth: narrative christology - processual christology, thematic christology; narrative typology - the Fall myth, the Adam/Christ-myth; narrative unity - the three arches of tension, the two processes of event; narrative evangelium - narrative Kerygma, Kerygmatic narration; narrativity and historicity - historical truth, narrative truth.