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The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama is the first book-length study of genre and character cognition in the Gospel of John. Informed by traditions of ancient literary criticism and the emerging discipline of cognitive narratology, Tyler Smith argues that narrative genres have generalizable patterns for representing cognitive material and that this has profound implications for how readers make sense of cognitive content woven into the narratives they encounter. After investigating conventions for representing cognition in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama, Smith offers an original account of how these conventions illuminate the Johannine narrative’s enigmatic cognitive dimension, a rich tapestry of love and hate, belief and disbelief, recognition and misrecognition, understanding and misunderstanding, knowledge, ignorance, desire, and motivation.
Price: $161.00
Pages: 306
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Biblical Interpretation Series
Publication Date:
21 March 2019
ISBN: 9789004396036
Format: Hardcover
"In sum, The fourth Gospel and the manufacture of minds is a rewarding reference volume for the scholar who wishes to dig deeper into the creation of the Johannine story or who wants to learn more about character building in first-century Hellenistic texts. I highly recommend this volume for any serious student of John’s Gospel." - Douglas Estes, South University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2021.01.08
Tyler Smith, Ph.D. (2016), Yale University, teaches in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa.