Hearing the non-violence in a silent departure (John 8:59 and 10:39)

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Josiah D. Hall
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Abstract

The provocative exchanges between Jesus and his interlocutors in John 8 and 10 both climax in the interlocutors rejecting Jesus’s claims and seeking to stone him before tersely describing Jesus’s escape from a premature death: in John 8:59, Jesus hides himself and departs from the temple, whereas in John 10:39, he merely departs. These enigmatic descriptions of departure create “narrative silences.” Considering ancient expectations for violent divine retribution against those who failed to recognize and honor a deity’s manifestation, I argue these “narrative silences” would have provoked an ancient audience to anticipate violent divine judgment. John, however, subverts this expectation. While maintaining that Jesus’s departure from the temple, and, later, from the world, are divine judgment in the form of the removal of the divine presence, John nevertheless presents this judgment as distinctively non-violent. This non-violent divine judgment in turn furthers the Gospel’s aim of convincing the audience to accept the Gospel’s claim that Jesus is the enfleshed divine presence.
在无声的离开中听到非暴力(约翰福音8:59和10:39)
在约翰福音8章和10章中,耶稣和他的对话者之间的挑衅性交流都达到了高潮,对话者拒绝了耶稣的说法,并试图用石头砸他,然后简洁地描述了耶稣从过早死亡中逃脱:在约翰福音8:59,耶稣隐藏自己,离开了圣殿,而在约翰福音10:39,他只是离开了。这些神秘的离别描述创造了“叙事的沉默”。考虑到古代对那些未能识别和尊重神的表现的人的暴力神的惩罚的期望,我认为这些“叙述沉默”会激起古代听众对暴力神的审判的预期。然而,约翰颠覆了这种期望。虽然约翰坚持认为,耶稣离开圣殿,后来离开世界,是神的审判,以神的存在被移除的形式,然而,约翰把这种审判呈现为独特的非暴力。这种非暴力的神圣审判反过来又进一步推动了福音书的目标,即说服读者接受福音书的说法,即耶稣是神圣的化身。
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