By Johannes Nissen, Sigfred Pedersen

This assortment by means of Scandinavian students deals new experiences on classical and sleek difficulties relating to the Fourth Gospel. There are essays on John and the Synoptics, and on John and the Qumran Scrolls. different essays current new literary ways corresponding to the query of the 'implied reader', biblical imagery, and irony and sectarianism. vital theological matters are mentioned, together with the matter of anti-Judaism, the translation of the loss of life of Jesus, the concept that of challenge, the relation among neighborhood and ethics, and the knowledge of God within the Johannine writings.

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Kermode brings out the serialelement in John's narrative, its episodic rather than sequential character, or, as he himself 12. Kermode, 'John', p. 440. ' 13 In this way the repetition establishes a pattern for the understanding of the separate events. That the Gospel pivots on the interpretation, which it demands, is proved by Kermode also on a more stylistic level, which enables him to end his presentation with the remark that John is one example among others from the Bible 'that the language of narrative, like that of poetry, can conceal sense as well as reveal it'.

Implied author and reader are internal factors within the text and should not be confused with the intended reader. The distinction between implied reader and narratee should be respected, since the latter knows more than the former. The narrator addresses the narratee with comments in the past tense on events that have not yet been mentioned in the Gospel. The narratee must know of them, but not the implied reader, who is bound to follow the sequence of the text. Nevertheless it is hard to see how this observation could be used, if not to suggest an author's anticipation of various types of intended readers.

About 'language games' in exegetical methods, see my article 'Analyse semiotique et commentaire: Quelques reflexions a propos d'etudes de Luc 10. 2537', NTS 25 (1979), pp. 454-68. 3. ', BZ NS 20 (1976), pp. 212-16. 4. C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961); W. Iser, Der implizite Leser (Munich: Fink, 1972); idem, Der Akt des Lesens (Munich: Fink, 1976); S. Chatman, Story and Discourse (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978); G. Genette, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (trans.

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