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This dissertation seeks to bring balance to existing trends in Johannine scholarship that either appropriate a virtually exclusive Christocentric reading to the Fourth Gospel or focus on reconstructing the Gospel’s history and audiences. These two tendencies overlook important q…

This dissertation focuses on the Passion Narrative in the Gospel of John, with particular attention to the arrest scene (18:1-12), the Roman show trial (18:28-19:16), and the crucifixion and burial (19:16-40). It employs James C. Scott's model of hidden transcripts and gives car…

This dissertation attempts to answer two questions related to the significance of John 17 in the Fourth Gospel. First, does John 17 serve to summarize the themes of the Fourth Gospel as so many scholars suggest? Second, if so, is there any discernible pattern in the thematic rel…

The Fourth Gospel asserts that Jesus is king and Messiah and underscores the royal status of Jesus especially in the passion narrative. There is a recent tendency in Johannine scholarship to divorce Jesus' kingship from his messiahship, on account of the dearth of explicit David…