The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of JesusAlthough consistently overlooked or dismissed, John 8.6, 8 in the "Pericope Adulterae" is the only place in canonical or non-canonical Jesus tradition that portrays Jesus as writing. After establishing that John 8.6, 8 is indeed a claim that Jesus could write, this book offers a new interpretation and transmission history of the "Pericope Adulterae." Not only did the pericope s interpolator place the story in John s Gospel in order to highlight the claim that Jesus could write, but he did so at John 7.53 8.11 as a result of carefully reading the Johannine narrative. The final chapter of the book proposes a plausible socio-historical context for the insertion of the story. |
Contents
Introduction The Most Popular Story in the Gospels | 1 |
Chapter One A History of Research on John 86 8 | 11 |
καταγραφω and γραπω in Hellenistic Jewish and New Testament Contexts | 27 |
Chapter Three Writing and Gradations of Literacy | 53 |
The Scribes and Pharisees as TextBrokers | 95 |
The Location | 119 |
The Preceding Context of John 7 | 141 |
The Narrative | 161 |
The Divine GraphoLiteracy of Jesus | 175 |
A Proposal | 203 |
Conclusion The Pericope Adulterae in the Early Church | 257 |
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Index of Ancient Sources | 291 |
Index of Authors | 307 |
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