Presentation of Biblical Figures in Poetic Paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel

2021 ◽  
pp. 369-379
Keyword(s):  
John The Baptist ◽  
John's Gospel ◽  
Biblical Figures

What is History? Reading John 1 as Historical Representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Rafael Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
John 1 ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
The Social ◽  
John's Gospel

As Pontius Pilate nearly asked, What is history? This article draws upon memory and media studies to question the notion that we find history within the text of the Fourth Gospel. Rather than trying to identify and isolate history within John’s Gospel, our discussion aims to recover how the Gospel works as a set of historical claims, joining with or competing against other historical claims within the social sphere of its author, redactor, and/or audience. After a précis of memory’s and media’s significance for our question (What is history?), we will localize these abstract issues by turning to the Johannine portrayal of John the Baptist and his testimony for Jesus. This approach respects the Fourth Gospel as a written text that developed and was compiled/redacted in the late first century without imposing a rigidly atemporal conception of Johannine theology onto John’s claims about events six or seven decades earlier.

Freud and Jewish Dreaming

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Frosh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biblical Figures

This paper describes some links between Freud's creative activity in The Interpretation of Dreams and his identification with the biblical figures of Joseph and Moses. In particular, it draws on traditional Jewish thought on the relationship between prophecy and dreaming, and on the characters of Joseph and of Moses. It is argued that The Interpretation of Dreams shows Freud exploring aspects of his gendered and cultural identity and finding a place for himself as a provocative and iconoclastic ‘dreamer’ in the Jewish tradition.

Cultural Resources Survey of St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Jefferson Parishes Construction Items.

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Shannon ◽  
Goodwin Jr. ◽  
Hewitt R. C. ◽  
Lawrence L.
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Resources ◽  
John The Baptist

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Foot Washing ◽  
John's Gospel ◽  
Do So

This brief concluding chapter includes a summary of the book’s main points, chapter by chapter. It also includes a brief meditation on the portion of John’s gospel, John 13:1–17, in which Jesus serves his disciples by washing their feet. The act itself expresses humility, a fact that is underscored by the reversal of social roles that it exemplifies. It is especially striking that Jesus washes the feet of Judas, who would soon betray him. This reversal of social roles not only exemplifies the moral virtue of humility, it also provides a model for followers of Christ to imitate in daily life. The foot washing can also serve as a reminder to those who seek to exemplify the Christian virtue of humility, namely, that there are opportunities to do so in small, everyday situations.

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