Johannine Social Identity Formation after the Fall of the Jerusalem Temple

Christopher A. Porter, Ph.D. (2019), Ridley College (ACT), is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Theological School, University of Divinity. Previously working in socio-cognitive psychology, his focus is on the application of social identity theory to socio-religious groups.

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1 Introduction

 1.1 Scope of the Problem

 1.2 Need of the Study

 1.3 Research Question

 1.4 Implicit Sociological Approaches to the Fourth Gospel

 1.5 Other Socio-Scientific Approaches to Biblical Texts

 1.6 Methodology

 1.7 Process of This Study



2 Reference Models of Temple-Removed Jewish Social Construction

 2.1 Social Category Formation in the Damascus Document (CD)

 2.2 Social Category Formation in Community Rule (QS)

 2.3 Discussion: Social Category Differentiation in Temple-Removed Jewish Subgroups



3 Prolegomena to the Fourth Gospel Analysis

 3.1 Introduction to the Fourth Gospel

 3.2 Oral Performance and Codification of Identity

 3.3 Approach to Reading the Fourth Gospel



4 Christological Social Identity Confrontation through SAGA Constructions

 4.1 The Prologue

 4.2 SAGA Constructions

 4.3 Discussion: The οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι and the Outcome of SAGA Analysis

 4.4 SAGA Conclusions



5 Christological Social Identity Confirmation in the Extended Discourses of the Fourth Gospel

 5.1 Introduction

 5.2 Inter-subgroup Dialogical Discourses

 5.3 In-Group Discourses

 5.4 Inter-subgroup Conflict

 5.5 In-Group Reconstruction

 5.6 Discussion: The ἐγώ εἰμι Statements

 5.7 Conclusion of the Discourses



6 Social Category Engagement in the Johannine Epistles

 6.1 The First Epistle

 6.2 The Second Epistle

 6.3 The Third Epistle

 6.4 Discussion: The Johannine Community

 6.5 Conclusion to Epistles Analysis



7 Contemporaneous Parallels to Johannine Social Identity Formation

 7.1 Philo’s Apologies

 7.2 Josephus’ Antiquities and Jewish War

 7.3 Conclusion to Parallels



8 Conclusion

 8.1 Overview

 8.2 Discussion

 8.3 Outcome

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