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JOHN’S GOSPEL AND INTIMATIONS OF APOCALYPTIC ii JOHN’S GOSPEL AND INTIMATIONS OF APOCALYPTIC Edited by Catrin H. Williams and Christopher Rowland LONDON • NEW DELHI • NEW YORK • SYDNEY Bloomsbury T&T Clark An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury is a registered trade mark of Bloomsbury Publishing plc First published 2013 © Catrin H. Williams and Christopher Rowland, with Contributors, 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Catrin H. Williams, Christopher Rowland and contributors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury Academic or the authors. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-0-56761-852-8 PB: 978-0-56711-910-0 ePDF: 978-0-56707-195-8 ePub: 978-0-56746-300-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data John’s Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic / Catrin H. Williams and Christopher Rowland, with Contributors p.cm Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 978-0-5676-1852-8 (hardcover) – ISBN 978-0-5671-1910-0 (pbk.) Typeset by Forthcoming Publications Ltd (www.forthpub.com) CONTENTS Abbreviations vii INTRODUCTION Christopher Rowland and Catrin H. Williams ix Part I INTIMATIONS OF APOCALYPTIC INTIMATIONS OF APOCALYPTIC: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD John Ashton 3 JOHN AND THE JEWISH APOCALYPSES: RETHINKING THE GENRE OF JOHN’S GOSPEL Benjamin Reynolds 36 FROM THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN TO THE JOHANNINE ‘APOCALYPSE IN REVERSE’: INTIMATIONS OF APOCALYPTIC AND THE QUEST FOR A RELATIONSHIP Ian Boxall 58 GOD’S DWELLING ON EARTH: ‘SHEKHINA-THEOLOGY’ IN REVELATION 21 AND IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Jörg Frey 79 UNVEILING REVELATION: THE SPIRIT-PARACLETE AND APOCALYPTIC DISCLOSURE IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Catrin H. Williams 104 ‘INTIMATIONS OF APOCALYPTIC’: THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION Christopher Rowland 128 vi Contents Part II THE GOSPEL OF JOHN AND ITS APOCALYPTIC MILIEU: SATAN AND THE RULER OF THIS WORLD WHY ARE THE HEAVENS CLOSED? THE JOHANNINE REVELATION OF THE FATHER IN THE CATHOLIC-GNOSTIC DEBATE April D. DeConick 147 THE RULER OF THE WORLD, ANTICHRISTS AND PSEUDO-PROPHETS: JOHANNINE VARIATIONS ON AN APOCALYPTIC MOTIF Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer 180 EVIL IN JOHANNINE AND APOCALYPTIC PERSPECTIVE: PETITION FOR PROTECTION IN JOHN 17 Loren T. Stuckenbruck 200 Part III JOHN AND APOCALYPTIC: TEXT AND READERS TEXT AND AUTHORITY IN JOHN AND APOCALYPTIC Judith M. Lieu 235 THE READER AS APOCALYPTIST IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN Robert G. Hall 254 APOCALYPTIC MYSTAGOGY: REBIRTH-FROM-ABOVE IN THE RECEPTION OF JOHN’S GOSPEL Robin Griffith-Jones 274 EPILOGUE Adela Yarbro Collins 300 Index of References 308 Index of Authors 325 ABBREVIATIONS AB Anchor Bible ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by D. N. Freedman. 6 vols. New York, 1992 AGJU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums AGSU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Spätjudentums und Urchristentums ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Edited by J. B. Pritchard. Princeton, 3rd edn, 1969 BAGD Bauer, W., W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. W. Danker. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago, 2nd edn, 1979 BETL Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium BEvT Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series CCSL Corpus Christianorum: Series latina. Turnhout, 1953– CEJL Commentaries on early Jewish literature ConBNT Coniectanea Neotestamentica or Coniectanea Biblica: New Testament Series CRINT Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum Ad Novum Testamentum CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium. Edited by I. B. Chabot et al. Paris, 1903– DDD Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Edited by K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, and P. W. van der Horst. Leiden, 1995 DSD Dead Sea Discoveries EKK Evangelisch-katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments GCS Die griechische christliche Schriftsteller der ersten [drei] Jahrhunderte HSM Harvard Semitic Museum HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual HUT Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie ICC International Critical Commentary IEJ Israel Exploration Journal JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JJS Journal of Jewish Studies JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement Series JSP Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha JSPSup Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Supplement Series viii Abbreviations JSSSup Journal of Semitic Studies, Supplement Series KJV King James Version LCL Loeb Classical Library LHBOTS Library of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies LXX Septuagint MT Masoretic Text NA27 Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle-Aland, 27th edn NHS Nag Hammadi Studies NIGTC The New International Greek Testament Commentary NovTSup Novum Testamentum Supplements NPNF2 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2 NRSV New Revised Standard Version NTABh Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen NTOA Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus NTS New Testament Studies OG Old Greek OTP Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Edited by J. H. Charlesworth. 2 vols. New York, 1983 PG Patrologia graeca [= Patrologiae cursus completus: Series graeca]. Edited by J.-P. Migne. 162 vols. Paris, 1857–1886 QD Quaestiones disputatae RB Revue biblique RGG Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Edited by K. Galling. 7 vols. Tübingen, 3rd edn, 1957–65 RNT Regensburger Neues Testament RSV Revised Standard Version SANT Studien zum Alten und Neuen Testaments SBL Society of Biblical Literature SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series SBLSBS Society of Biblical Literature Sources for Biblical Study SBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien SJT Scottish Journal of Theology SNTSMS Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series STDJ Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah SVTP Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigraphica TANZ Texte und Arbeiten zum neutestamentlichen Zeitalter THKNT Theologischer Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament ThWNT Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament. Edited by G. Kittel. Stuttgart, 1933–1979 TSAJ Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism TU Texte und Untersuchungen TZ Theologische Zeitschrift WBC Word Biblical Commentary WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament YDCL Yearbook of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ZTK Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 1 INTRODUCTION Christopher Rowland and Catrin H. Williams In addition to being a remarkable monument to the history of modern scholarship on the Gospel of John, surveying the history of scholarship with that characteristic mix of concise expression and critical nuance, John Ashton’s Understanding the Fourth Gospel points in many new directions for study. It is one of these new directions, strangely passed over in the reception of Ashton’s book, which was at the heart of a colloquium entitled ‘John’s Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic’ held at Bangor University in July 2010 and which forms the basis of this present volume of essays. In a memorable chapter in Understanding the Fourth Gospel, which had made its impact on so many of the participants at the colloquium, John Ashton integrates new approaches to the study of apocalypticism with major themes of the Gospel of John, so that apocalyptic themes illuminate central theological ideas in the Gospel – and to great effect. What is more, as elsewhere in the book, he manages to capture the nature of what he discerns through striking phrases, which have since become imaginative catalysts for a new perspective. Take, for example, the phrase in the title of this volume, ‘Intimations of Apoca- lyptic’. From any point of view the Gospel of John can hardly be said to be immediately and obviously a fully blown apocalypse; there is no account of a heavenly vision, ascent to heaven, nor, even if one uses widely held understandings of apocalyptic, a (cid:191)nal irruption and winding up of history. What there is – and pervasively so – are ‘intimations of apocalyptic’. John’s Gospel is a text pervaded with themes concerning ‘apocalypse’, revelation – concerning the meeting of two worlds medi- ated through the persons and events of this world. It is full of intimations, therefore, for those with eyes to see the apocalypse manifested in the Word become (cid:192)esh. Like the sun at dawn on a cloudy day which occa- sionally bursts through the gloom lighting up the sky, the Johannine narrative offers intimations of another world, another reality, without the direct immediate paraphernalia of a theophany so typical of many apocalyptic visions.
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