Figuren als Handlungsmodelle

Fredrik Wagener unites character-analysis and ethical readings of John's Gospel in this volume. He offers both lay-people and experts a comprehensive array of tools for examining biblical and other narrative texts alike. Exemplary applications, images and tables make this part of the work a practical, well-equipped study workshop. The heart of the book is a detailed exegesis of the subtitle's four characters. Complete scenes in which they appear are analysed and interpreted for their moral statements, rules, stimuli to act or ethical reflection-impetus. The characters are made to appear as either good examples or ones of deterrence, as someone to identify with or symbolic mediums for reflection. A wide horizon of the gospel's ethical substance is hereby demonstrated.