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Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel According to John

:	Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang
:	Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel According to John
:	Mohr Siebeck
:	9783161551154
:	Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe
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:	CHF 83.20
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:	Christentum
:	English

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In this book, Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang explores the relationship between sense perception and testimony in the Gospel of John. While Johannine scholars tend to focus on one or the other, she shows that sense perception and testimony are both significant and are used together with the intention of drawing readers into the narrative so that they become witnesses in an emotionally engaged way. It is argued that John's use of sense perception together with testimony is rooted in Jewish literature. Yet John also employs a Graeco-Roman rhetorical technique, enargeia, which appeals to the persuasive power of sense perception to make his narrative vivid. John does not downplay sense perception. Rather, he uses it in the context of testimony as a means of persuasion to draw the readers, in their imagination, into the experience of the first disciples and thus deeper into faith and witness.

Born 1975; since 2014 Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Central Taiwan Theological Seminary.

	Cover	1
	Preface	8
	Table of Contents	10
	Abbreviations	16
	Chapter 1: The Focus of the Study	18
	1. Introduction	18
	2. History of Scholarship	19
	2.1 Sense Perception	19
	2.1.1 Sense Perception and Faith	19
	2.1.2 Symbolic Interpretation of Sense Perception	24
	2.1.3 The Range of Senses	27
	2.2 Testimony	30
	2.2.1 Testimony and Revelation	32
	2.2.2 Rhetorical Purpose and Technique	32
	2.3 Sense Perception and Testimony	35
	3. The Aim and the Structure of this Study	37
	3.1 The Aim of this Study	37
	3.2 The Structure of the Study	38
	Chapter 2: An Overview of Sense Perception and Testimony	39
	1. Statistics and Distribution	39
	1.1 The Prologue (John 1:1–18)	40
	1.2 The Testimony of the Baptist and the First Disciples (John 1:19–51)	42
	1.3 The Public Ministry of Jesus (John 2–12)	44
	1.4 The Farewell Discourse (John 13–17)	46
	1.5 The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus (John 18–21)	47
	2. Problems with Sense Perception	49
	2.1 The Undefined Object	49
	2.2 The Vision of the Invisible: Glory, the Spirit and the Lamb of God	50
	2.3 The Perception of God by Privileged Witnesses	51
	2.4 The Perception of Signs within the Narrative	51
	2.5 Perception Pre- and Post-Easter	52
	3. John’s Use of Testimony Language	53
	Chapter 3: The Intended Audience and the Purpose of the Gospel	55
	1. John 20:30–31	56
	1.1 Textual Variant in John 20:31a	57
	1.2 The Construction of ??? + ???????	60
	2. John’s Concept of Faith	63
	3. The Content of the Gospel	64
	3.1 Structure and Presentation	64
	3.2 The Language of Abiding and Indwelling	65
	3.3 Ambiguities and Allusiveness in Language	65
	3.4 The Paraclete	66
	3.5 The Mission Motif	67
	4. Conclusion	67
	Chapter 4: Sense Perception, the Knowledge of God and Testimony in the Jewish Scriptures	69
	1. Theophany	71
	1.1 Jacob’s Ladder ( ??? ) (Gen 28:10–17)	72
	1.2 Theophany on Mount Sinai	75
	1.2.1 The Israelites’ Perception of God (Exodus 19–20)	75
	1.2.2 Moses’ Perception of God (Exodus 33–34)	78
	2. The Exodus Miracles	80
	3. Communal Vision in Deuteronomy	84
	4. The Tabernacle and the Ark of Testimony	87
	5. Prophetic Sign-Acts	90
	6. The Book of Isaiah	94
	6.1 The Motif of Blindness and Deafness	96
	6.2 The Motif of Light and Darkness	99
	6.3 The Motif of Trial and Sense Perception	100
	7. Conclusion	102
	Chapter 5: Sense Perception and Testimony in the Graeco-Roman World	104
	1. Techniques in Judicial Oratory to ‘bring before the eyes’ the thing told: ???????? and ????????	106
	1.1 ????????	106
	1.2 ????????	108
	2. Rhetorical Appeal to Emotion	110
	3. Ways to Achieve ????????	114
	4. An Analysis of Plato’s Apology and Cicero’s Verrine Orations	118
	4.1 Plato’s Apology	118
	4.1.1 Repetition and the Presence of the Crowd	119
	4.1.2 Repetition, Contrast and Creating a Pictorial Image by Noting Particular Features of Actions and Objects	120
	4.1.3 Verbal Cues to Prompt Imagination	122
	4.1.4 Repetition with a Description of Sudden Actions	122
	4.2 Cicero’s Verrine Orations	125
	4.2.1 Using Dialogues, Contrast and Creating a Pictorial Image by Noting Particular Features of Actions and Objects	126
	4.2.2 Crea