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In Johannine Social Identity Formation after the Fall of the Jerusalem Temple Christopher Porter reads the Fourth Gospel through the lens of social identity theory as means of reconciling the social dislocation and trauma of the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. Analysing the Fourth Gospel in conversation with other temple-removed texts of Qumran, Philo, and Josephus the gospel's intent to renegotiate cultic life without the temple can be seen. Through this analysis it is argued that the Fourth Gospel primarily functions as an intra-mural Jewish text, attempting to negotiate the formation of a Jesus-follower social identity in direct continuity with earlier Jewish shared social narratives. Finally, this work reviews the Johannine Community as an outcome of the Gospel identity formation.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Lisrt of Figures
Abbreviations
Glossary
1 Introduction
1.1 Scope of the Problem
1.2 Need of the Study
1.3 Research Question
1.4 Implicit Sociological Approaches to the Fourth Gospel
1.5 Other Socio-Scientific Approaches to Biblical Texts
1.6 Methodology
1.7 Process of This Study
2 Reference Models of Temple-Removed Jewish Social Construction
2.1 Social Category Formation in the Damascus Document (CD)
2.2 Social Category Formation in Community Rule (QS)
2.3 Discussion: Social Category Differentiation in Temple-Removed Jewish Subgroups
3 Prolegomena to the Fourth Gospel Analysis
3.1 Introduction to the Fourth Gospel
3.2 Oral Performance and Codification of Identity
3.3 Approach to Reading the Fourth Gospel
4 Christological Social Identity Confrontation through SAGA Constructions
4.1 The Prologue
4.2 SAGA Constructions
4.3 Discussion: The οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι and the Outcome of SAGA Analysis
4.4 SAGA Conclusions
5 Christological Social Identity Confirmation in the Extended Discourses of the Fourth Gospel
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Inter-subgroup Dialogical Discourses
5.3 In-Group Discourses
5.4 Inter-subgroup Conflict
5.5 In-Group Reconstruction
5.6 Discussion: The ἐγώ εἰμι Statements
5.7 Conclusion of the Discourses
6 Social Category Engagement in the Johannine Epistles
6.1 The First Epistle
6.2 The Second Epistle
6.3 The Third Epistle
6.4 Discussion: The Johannine Community
6.5 Conclusion to Epistles Analysis
7 Contemporaneous Parallels to Johannine Social Identity Formation
7.1 Philo's Apologies
7.2 Josephus' Antiquities and Jewish War
7.3 Conclusion to Parallels
8 Conclusion
8.1 Overview
8.2 Discussion
8.3 Outcome
Bibliography
Index
