Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Tables
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I THE NARRATIVE
- A THE PASSION NARRATIVE
- B THE MINISTRY
- C JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THE FIRST DISCIPLES
- PART II THE SAYINGS
- 1 Discourse and Dialogue in the Fourth Gospel
- 2 Sayings common to John and the Synoptics
- 3 Parabolic Forms
- 4 Sequences of Sayings
- 5 Predictions
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
1 - Discourse and Dialogue in the Fourth Gospel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2010
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Tables
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I THE NARRATIVE
- A THE PASSION NARRATIVE
- B THE MINISTRY
- C JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THE FIRST DISCIPLES
- PART II THE SAYINGS
- 1 Discourse and Dialogue in the Fourth Gospel
- 2 Sayings common to John and the Synoptics
- 3 Parabolic Forms
- 4 Sequences of Sayings
- 5 Predictions
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- Index Locorum
- Index Nominum
Summary
It is a trite observation that the presentation of the teaching of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel is widely different in form and manner from that in the Synoptic Gospels. The teaching is given mainly in a series of long and elaborate discourses, partly dialogue, partly monologue, with a tendency to make a dialogue lead up to a monologue in which its theme is more fully explored, or expounded in greater detail. In the Synoptic Gospels there are indeed a few monologues of some length, but critical analysis makes it almost certain that these are in general the result of an editorial process in which originally detached pericopae have been combined, either by simply stitching them together or by supplying a framework which imposes a certain unity upon them. The longest monologues which are complete units in themselves are probably the more elaborate parables, such as the Prodigal Son and the Talents, and the Judgement-scene miscalled the parable of the Sheep and Goats. But any comparison of these with the Johannine discourses serves only to bring out the fundamental diversity. Nor does the composition of the latter show any considerable similarity to the editorial processes which have produced such passages as the Sermon on the Mount or the Eschatological Discourse of Mark xiii and parallels.
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- Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel , pp. 315 - 334Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1963
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