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13 - Signs Cultivating Imperfect Belief in the Fourth Gospel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2025

By
Tyler Smith
Edited by
Keith Bodner
Keith Bodner
Affiliation:
Crandall University, Canada
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Summary

While all four canonical gospels present Jesus performing astonishing deeds – healing the sick, raising the dead, feeding multitudes, exercising dominance over winds and waves, casting out demons, and more – the Fourth Gospel artistically stands apart from its gospel neighbors.

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Fourth GospelJohnsigns
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The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative , pp. 255 - 273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Selected Further Reading

Bennema, Cornelis. Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2009.Google Scholar
Frey, Jörg. “From the Sēmeia Narratives to the Gospel as a Significant Narrative: On Genre-Bending in the Johannine Miracle Stories.” Pages 209–32 in The Gospel of John as Genre Mosaic. Edited by Larsen, Kasper Bro. SANt 3. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015.Google Scholar
Frey, Jörg, Gruber, Margareta, and Karakolis, Christos, eds., The Semeia Narratives in John – Form, Function, and Theology, WUNT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming.Google Scholar
Hunt, Steven A., Francois Tolmie, D., and Zimmermann, Ruben, eds. Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel. WUNT 314. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hylen, Susan. Imperfect Believers: Ambiguous Characters in the Gospel of John. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2009.Google Scholar
Moloney, Francis J. Signs and Shadows: Reading John 5–12. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.Google Scholar
Reinhartz, Adele. Cast Out of the Covenant: Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John. Lanham: Lexington Books / Fortress Academic, 2018.Google Scholar
Salier, Willis Hedley. The Rhetorical Impact of the Sēmeia in the Gospel of John, WUNT II/186. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004.Google Scholar
Seglenieks, Chris. Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion: Reshaping Devotion for John’s Graeco-Roman Audience, WUNT II/528. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Skinner, Christopher W., ed. Characters and Characterization in the Gospel of John. LNTS 461. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, Tyler. The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama. BibInt 173. Leiden: Brill, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thompson, Marianne Meye. “Signs and Faith in the Fourth Gospel,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 1 (1991): 89–108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whitenton, Michael R. “The Dissembler of John 3: A Cognitive and Rhetorical Approach to the Characterization of Nicodemus.” JBL 135 (2016): 141–58.Google Scholar

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