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Contents
Prescript: Why Ask Why John Wrote a Gospel? or, What Difference Does This Make ?
PART 1 - The Question - Why Write a Gospel?
1. Why Did John _Write_ a Gospel?
_WHY_ DID JOHN WRITE A GOSPEL?
2. Writing as Archive:The Fourth Gospel and the Medicine of Memory
FROM TRADITION TO GOSPELS: THE CONSENSUS VIEW
THE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
PART 2 - John's Memory of Jesus
3. The Persistence of John's Memory
JOHN ON THE NATURE OF MEMORY
MEMORY, AMBIGUITY, GOSPELS
4. Writing as Rhetoric: The Fourth Gospel in John's Media Culture
WRITING WITHOUT READING: THE POWER OF THE PEN IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
LUKE THE HISTORlAN, JOHN THE EVANGELIST
PROBLEM TEXTS IN PERSPECTIVE: JOHN 19:35, 21:24
PART 3 - The Memory Wars: Bent Frameworks, Countermemories, AntiChristianity
5. John's Memory Framework
MY PAST IS YOUR PAST: THE PUBLIC FRAMEWORKS OF PRIVATE MEMORIES
Reception: My Public Private Life
Recall: My Public Private Memory
THE JOHANNINE MEMORY FRAMEWORK
6. One Way Back to Two Places: AntiChristian Countermemory
JOHN VS. THE ANTICHRISTS: A THEOLOGICAL DEBATE?
A GENEALOGY OF CONFLICT: THE ANTICHRISTIAN COUNTERMEMORY
7. Jesus Now and Then: John's Dogmatic Memory
THE LOOK OF JESUS IN THE LIMINAL ZONE
Why Reinvent Jesus?
How to Reinvent Jesus?
JOHN'S DOGMATIC MEMORY
8. AntiChristian Mystical Memory
DOGMA AND WRITING: JOHN'S BEST PLAN OF ATTACK
PART 4 - The Answer-Memory and History
Intermission
9. "Everything That Rises Must Converge": The Private Past in Memory
THE PAST IS A CONTRACT
THE BLUR FACTOR: THE ORGANIZED PAST IN MEMORY
The Order of the Past
The Blur Factor: Memory Squeeze
LISTENER SUPPORTED: MEMORY'S SYMPATHETIC EAR
10. Beyond the Scope of the Present Study: The Public Past in History Books
THE TOTAL OBJECTIVE PAST
PERMANENT PERIODS, FROZEN TIME
Narrative Logic
The Digital Past
THE VIRTUES OF VAGUENESS
11. Why John Wrote a Gospel
REASON #1: JESUS IN PUBLIC
REASON #2: TRAPPED TIME
REASON #3: A SHALLOW DATA POOL
REASON #4: THE LIVING WATERSHED
REASON #5: FAITH WITHOUT READING
Postscript - The Original Questfor a Historical Jesus
EVANGEL OR APOLOGY?
THE SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, OR FIFTH FOURTH GOSPEL?
JOHN AND JESUS
Abbreviations
Notes
Prescript
Chapter 1: Why Did John Write a Gospel?
Chapter 2: Writing as Archive
Chapter 3: The Persistence of John's Memory
Chapter 4: Writing as Rhetoric
Chapter 5: John's Memory Framework
Chapter 6: One Way Back to Two Places
Chapter 7: Jesus Now and Then
Chapter 8: AntiChristian Mystical Memory
Chapter 9: ''Everything That Rises Must Converge"
Chapter 10: Beyond the Scope of the Present Study
Chapter 11: Why John Wrote a Gospel
Postscript
Works Cited
Index
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