Recognizing the Stranger: Recognition Scenes in the Gospel of John

by Kasper Bro Larsen

Recognizing the Stranger is the first monographic study of recognition type-scenes and motifs (anagnōrisis) in the Gospel of John. The book shows how the Gospel employs and transforms contemporary genre conventions in its portrait of Jesus as the divine stranger.

280 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2008