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- Title: Wisdom's Rescue: A New Reading of the Tabernacles Discourse (John 7:1-8:59).
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 1997
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 234 KB
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Over the years, Johannine scholarship has devoted much attention to the sapiential antecedents of the Gospel of John as background for understanding its Christology. As a consequence, the Johannine Jesus is described primarily as God's Wisdom come down from heaven to bring God's word to those who would receive it. While this kind of sapiential tradition is clearly in evidence in the Gospel of John, another is also worthy of note--namely, the wisdom tale, a story in which the protagonist is threatened with trial or ordeal but later is rescued, vindicated, and restored to power, while his or her opponents are made to suffer for their wrongdoing. This study will focus on the Tabernacles discourse (John 7:1-8:59) in order to uncover in it a unique Johannine innovation, a story about Wisdom's "rescue" from the enemies' hands. It is the story of Jesus, the Wisdom of God, whom his own people would not accept (see John 1:11), bur whom God would surely rescue and vindicate in the face of his enemies. The conceptual background of the wisdom tale allows the fourth evangelist to acknowledge the problem of the death of Jesus but also to interpret it precisely as the moment in which Jesus is exalted and vindicated and as the decisive event whereby Jesus' enemies are condemned. Moreover, the incorporation of language and imagery from the sapiential Wisdom/Sophia traditions invests this wisdom tale with even greater significance, since it is the story not simply of a wise man but of Wisdom (her)self. Thus, the Tabernacles discourse becomes an apologetic for a community trying to make sense of the death of Jesus, the Wisdom of God, while coming to terms with the meaning of its own persecutions.