Jesus Caesar: a Roman reading of the Johannine trial narrative
Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Romans, Their Language, and the Gospel of John -- A. Moving Empire Studies Forward: Issues of Interpretation -- I. Interpretative agendas in empire studies -- II. Interpretative method to de-emphasize agendas:...
| Resumo: | Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Romans, Their Language, and the Gospel of John -- A. Moving Empire Studies Forward: Issues of Interpretation -- I. Interpretative agendas in empire studies -- II. Interpretative method to de-emphasize agendas: Semiotics -- III. Interpreting political and religious categories -- B. The Language of the Gospel of John -- I. Antilanguage -- II. Hidden transcripts -- III. Bayes' Theorem -- C. Loyalties in the Roman World -- I. Intersectionality -- II. Language and ethnic loyalty -- III. Johannine auditors and the Romans -- IV. The place of Jesus vis à vis Caesar -- D. Chapter Summary and Book Outline -- Chapter 2: The Semiotics of Multilingual Communication -- A. An Encyclopaedia of Cultural Units -- I. Cultural units -- II. Encyclopaedias and universes of discourse -- III. Multiple cultures, multiple cultural units -- B. Languages in Contact -- I. Definitions: Language, bilingualism, and domain -- II. Code-switching for specificity -- C. Literary Allusions in Semiotic Analysis -- I. Literary allusions -- II. The semiotics of allusions -- D. Summary -- Chapter 3: Latin Intersections in the Eastern Roman Empire and the Gospel of John -- A. Latin and the Cities Connected with the Composition of John's Gospel -- I. Ephesus -- II. Antioch -- III. Alexandria -- IV. Summary -- B. Latinisms and the Text of John's Gospel -- I. Code-switches -- II. Syntactical latinisms -- III. Calques and language shift -- C. Summary -- Chapter 4: Legitimating Jesus as Caesar -- A. Imperator or Βασιλεύς in John 18:33-37 -- B. Jesus' Legitimation as Caesar -- I. The Roman recusatio and John 6:15 -- II. The consensus of the gods: Prophecies, wonders, and signs -- III. The consensus of the people: Adventus and John 12:12-19 -- C. Jesus as Caesar in John 18:38-19:22. |
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| ISBN: | 316157527X |