Family of the King: Dynamics of Metaphor in the Gospel According to John

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BRILL, 2000 - 467 pages
Nearly all metaphors in the Gospel according to John relate to ancient family imagery. Thus, the disciples are "born of the Father"; the Father "provides them with bread and drink" (water); He "educates" them and "protects" them and a "dwelling" is prepared for them, and so on. This family imagery, which is interwoven throughout the Gospel in a complex network, provides a key to the understanding of the message of the Fourth Gospel. In this volume, after exploring numerous state-of-the-art theories on metaphor, a customised metaphor theory is developed from the Fourth Gospel itself, which can be applied to the analysis of the Gospel as a whole. The theory is based on two of the best-known metaphors in the Fourth Gospel: "I am the Good Shepherd," and "I am the True Vine," Subsequently, all other metaphors are analysed according to this theory.
 

Contents

THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
1
DEVELOPING A THEORY OF METAPHOR
25
1118 I am the good
77
Reading the rest of ch 10
87
The dynamics of metaphor in some less developed imagery
101
Other metaphors or symbols
110
Παροιμία in the Gospel
158
Birth as metaphor in the Gospel
166
Education as family activity
266
Doing what your Ffather requires family ethics
284
Is the status of Jesus equal to that of
292
Familial love as common attitude between members
304
The believers brothers love the Son
312
Hate as characteristic of the кóσμoç
320
Mutual honor in the family of God
331
METAPHOR AND IMAGERY IN THE GOSPEL
394

Reading the references to birth in John 8
188
Interaction as metaphorical device
196
Water of life as metaphor
228
Life and light as related metaphors
235
Life and service
241
Further elements of family imagery in the Gospel
260
of metaphor
414
Why this image?
432
BIBLIOGRAPHY
441
INDEX OF AUTHORS
459
INDEX OF SELECTED SUBJECTS
465
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Jan G. van der Watt, D.D. (1986), D.Litt. (1999), is Head of the Department of New Testament, at the University of Pretoria. Currently, he is co-chairperson of the Johannine Seminar of the SNTS. He has published extensively in the field of New Testament studies, authoring 18 books, including a translation of the New Testament into Afrikaans.

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