Johannine Social Identity Formation After the Fall of the Jerusalem Temple

Negotiating Identity in Crisis
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46981-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 194, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 627 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

In Johannine Social Identity Formation after the Fall of the Jerusalem Temple Christopher Porter reads the Fourth Gospel through the lens of social identity theory as means of reconciling the social dislocation and trauma of the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. Analysing the Fourth Gospel in conversation with other temple-removed texts of Qumran, Philo, and Josephus the gospel’s intent to renegotiate cultic life without the temple can be seen. Through this analysis it is argued that the Fourth Gospel primarily functions as an intra-mural Jewish text, attempting to negotiate the formation of a Jesus-follower social identity in direct continuity with earlier Jewish shared social narratives. Finally, this work reviews the Johannine Community as an outcome of the Gospel identity formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

A Porter, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher A. Porter, Ph.D. (2019), Ridley College (ACT), is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Theological School, University of Divinity. Previously working in socio-cognitive psychology, his focus is on the application of social identity theory to socio-religious groups.