Interfigural Readings of the Gospel of John (Early Christianity and Its Literature Book 26)

New and challenging readings of biblical characters This volume of collected essays introduces the concept of interfigurality, the interrelations and interdependence between characters in the Gospel of John and in the Synoptic Gospels and the Hebrew Bible.The essays are informed by a narrative-critical reader-response, (post)feminist hermeneutics and an autobiographical approach to biblical texts. This volume encourages transformative encounters between present-day readers and the ancient biblical texts. Features: Previously unpublished conference papers and published essays A new perspective on the relation between New Testament and Hebrew Bible Foreword by Fernando F. Segovia Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger is an independent scholar and the editor of Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-viewed (1999), The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation (1998), and Autobiographical Biblical Criticism: Between Text and Self (2002). Read more