Johannine Social Identity Formation After the Fall of the Jerusalem Temple : Negotiating Identity in Crisis

Christopher A Porter

ISBN 10: 9004469818 / ISBN 13: 9789004469815

Verlag: Brill Okt 2021, 2021

Neuware - 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9789004469815

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

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Titel: Johannine Social Identity Formation After ...
Verlag: Brill Okt 2021
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu