The Ethnic Groups in the Fourth Gospel: A Historical-Literary and Social-Scientific Reading of the Dynamics of Identification and Representation Within a Contested Ethnicity KU Leuven
This project seeks to understand who the ᾽Ιουδαῖοι are and how they relate and negotiate their ethnic borders with the Ἕλληνες, Σαμαρῖται, ῾Ρωμαῖοι, and Γαλιλαῖοι as found in the Gospel of John. Applying a historical-critical approach on selected Johannine texts, it attempts to explain the dynamics of self-designation and border-crossing vis-à-vis some related literature (both biblical and extra-biblical) and studies of ethnic groups in the ...