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Today is the final part of this seven part series of an narrative analysis of this passage in the Gospel of John in which I present my final brief conclusion. I hope that this series has been of value to you. Please let me know what you thought of it, good or bad! Here are […]

We are coming near to the end of our narrative analysis of this passage from the Gospel of John. Today we will look at the plot of the narrative. If you need to catch up, here are the links to previous articles.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony […]

Yesterday we looked at the setting of his passage. Today we will examine its character: Jesus, Pilate, the Jews, and other supporting characters.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony | Part Four - Setting
Character
Jesus
Despite the fact that Pilate is the only character to appear consistently throughout the narrative, […]

Continuing our analysis of the narrative. today we will look at the setting. If you need to catch up, here are links to the first three parts of the analysis.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony
Setting
The architectural setting of this particular pericope plays a role in how it […]

Continuing our narrative analysis of this passage in the Gospel of John, today we will look at the irony involved in it. Irony in the Gospel of John is the largest of all the rhetoric. Here are links to the previous parts if you need to catch up.
Part 1 - Introduction | Part 2 - […]

Yesterday we began our look at this narrative in the Gospel of John with part one of our analysis. We looked briefly at the structure and any textual issues of importance in this section. Today we begin our focus on the rhetorical elements of the narrative: namely, theme, repetition, motif, type scenes, figures of speech, figures of […]

Last semester I took a class on the Gospel of John. For the final paper of that class I did a brief narrative analysis of the trial of Jesus by Pilate. This begins a series of posts on that analysis. First I will give a short introduction on what the paper (series of posts) is about, […]

Well I have finally turned in my papers for the end of classes this semester: Greek Exegesis and Narrative Criticism. It was a lot of work, but I put my best effort into it and I think it turned out alright. I always think I could have done more, and I probably could have, but […]

This is the final section in a series of posts from my Narrative Criticism class. In this section I will explore plot and the features of plot and how that affects the themes of Mark.
To understand the plot and how it affects the themes of this passage in Mark, I will briefly examine the three […]

Continuning the series on Mark 5:1-20, my next section covers the narrative function of point of view and how Mark conveys his ideological (or theological) point of view in the passage.
In this narrative we find Mark’s ideological stance: Jesus is mightier than the mightiest of men (Mark A commentary - New Testament Library, Euguene Boring […]

For my Narrative Criticism class I had to write a response to Jean Starobinski’s article on Mark 5:1-20. The response was to define his thesis and support of that thesis and my response to his approach to Scripture. Here are my thoughts, his article can be found in the winter 1973 edition of New Literary […]

Last time I wrote about some components of the setting to the passage Mark 5:1-20. This time we will look at characterization in this passage. The character we will look at is the demon-possessed man, sometimes called the demoniac.
The demon-possessed man is nearly two characters in one. I use the word ‘nearly’ because, although there […]