Jesus’s Puzzling Retort to the Royal Official (John 4:48) in Isodiegetic Perspective

Översatt titel: Jesus märkliga genmäle till mannen i kunglig tjänst (Joh 4:48) i ett isodiegetiskt perspektiv

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When a “royal official” (βασιλικός) urges Jesus to help his dying son, Jesus surprisingly retorts (John 4:48): “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” Researchers find this outburst out of place in response to this desperate father, but this paper argues that it can be explained by use of an isodiegetic perspective, where the Johannine storyworld is informed by a larger narrative tradition in which the tetrarch Herod Antipas (ca. 4 BCE–39 CE) is a known adversary of Jesus, whose adherents strive to entrap him and get him killed. In view of the official’s expected patronal loyalty to “king” (βασιλεύς) Herod, his healing request can reasonably be presumed to be a trap until his appeal “Lord, come before my child dies!” (John 4:49) clarifies that the man is not acting as a client, but as a father.
Översatt titelJesus märkliga genmäle till mannen i kunglig tjänst (Joh 4:48) i ett isodiegetiskt perspektiv
OriginalspråkEngelska
Sidor (från-till)193–209
TidskriftNovum Testamentum
Volym66
Nummer2
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 11 mars 2024
MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad

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