New Perspectives on Healing, Restoration and Reconciliation in John's Gospel (Biblical Interpretation) (Biblical Interpretation, 149)

414 Pages·2016·3.075 MB·English

by  Jacobus Kok

New Perspectives on Healing, Restoration and Reconciliation in John’s Gospel
Biblical Interpretation Series
Editors in Chief
Paul Anderson (George Fox University)
Jennifer Koosed (Albright College, Reading)
Editorial Board
A.K.M. Adam (University of Oxford)
Roland Boer (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Colleen M. Conway (Seton Hall University)
Vernon Robbins (Emory University)
Annette Schellenberg (Universität Wien)
Carolyn J. Sharp (Yale Divinity School)
Johanna Stiebert (University of Leeds)
Duane Watson (Malone University)
Ruben Zimmermann (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
VOLUME 149
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New Perspectives on Healing,
Restoration and Reconciliation
in John’s Gospel
By
Jacobus (Kobus) Kok
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kok, Jacobus (Kobus) author.
Title: New perspectives on healing, restoration, and reconciliation in John’s
 gospel / by Jacobus (Kobus) Kok.
Description: Boston : Brill, 2017. | Series: Biblical interpretation series,
 ISSN 0928-0731 ; VOLUME 149 | Includes bibliographical references and
 index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016042749 (print) | LCCN 2016044109 (ebook) | ISBN
 9789004242807 (hardback) : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004267800 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Bible. John—Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Healing in the
 Bible. | Healing—Biblical teaching.
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Dedicated to
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My academic father and beloved mentor
who turns 65 in 2017
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introductory Preface xi
List of Figures and Tables xix
Abbreviations xx
1 Introduction: Frame of Reference and Problem Statement 1
2 Background and Orientation 36
3 The Healing of the Royal Official’s Son: An Exegetical Study
of John 4:43–54
Macro Analysis of John 4:43–54 52
4 The Healing of the Lame Man: An Exegetic Study of John 5:1–9
within the Context of 5:1–47
Macro-Analysis of John 5:1–47 95
5 The Healing of the Blind Man: An Exegetical Study of John 9:1–41
Macro Analysis 150
6 The Restoration of Lazarus: An Exegetical Study of John 11:1–44  206
7 Faith in Jesus Leads to Spiritual Healing 243
8 The Resurrection of Jesus as Culminating Act of Healing
and Restoration 270
Conclusion and Implications for Interpretation 345
Bibliography 349
Addendum
Analysis of the Basic Structure of the Healing Narratives 370
Names and Subjects Index 389
Ancient Sources Index 391

Acknowledgements
This is a translated and revised version of a doctoral thesis presented to the
University of Pretoria (2005–2008) in South Africa. The University of Pretoria
requires that doctoral research results should be published in journals and
book chapters. From my doctoral thesis several articles and one book chapter
were published after submission of the thesis (during 2009–2012). With the
kind (written) permission of the journals and one book publisher, some sec-
tions appear in this book in a revised form:
Kok, J., 2009, ‘Die Opstanding van Jesus as Kulminerende Genesingshandeling
in Johannes’ [The resurrection of Jesus as culminating healing act in John],
Verbum et Ecclesia 30 (1), 112–147.
Kok, J., 2010, ‘As the Father has sent me, I send you: Towards a missional-
incarnational ethos in John 4’ in R. Zimmermann & J.G. Van der Watt (eds.),
Moral Language in the New Testament, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 168–193
(confer cum pp. 252fn19 in this book for Kok and Niemandt 2009).
Kok, J., 2011, ‘The Birth of the Post Resurrection Missional Church in John’,
Neotestamentica (43) 1, 1–15.
Kok, J., 2012, ‘The Healing of the Blind Man in John’, Journal of Early Christian
History, Vol 2.2012, pp. 36–62.
In 2005 I began with this book, as part of the requirements for a PhD in New
Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria which I completed in 2008
while I was a fulltime minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in South
Africa. Originally it was published in Afrikaans. In 2009 I was appointed as
Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria and
in 2012 promoted to Associate Professor and with that received some stu-
dent assistant help for two hours per week. Over the years (2009–2013) sev-
eral of my assistants1 and students translated the book into English. It took
a very long time. The process speeded up when Professors Tobias Nicklas,
John Kloppenborg and Paul Decock did an audit of our faculty in 2011. They
urged the University to supply funds so that the book could be translated
1  At the University of Pretoria Dr. Hanré Janse Van Rensburg, Dr. Llewellyn Howes and
Rev. Arend Hattingh assisted me in this project over the years (translation and proof reading).