TY - BOOK ID - 839361 TI - John, a postmodern gospel: introduction to deconstructive exegesis applied to the fourth gospel PY - 2000 VL - 44 SN - 9004116613 9004493905 9789004116610 9789004493902 PB - Leiden: Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Bible NT. Gospels. John KW - Deconstruction KW - Postmodernism KW - 226.5 KW - Post-modernism KW - Postmodernism (Philosophy) KW - Arts, Modern KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Post-postmodernism KW - Criticism KW - Semiotics and literature KW - Evangelie volgens Johannes KW - Bible. KW - Jean (Book of the New Testament) KW - Johanisi (Book of the New Testament) KW - Johannesevangelium KW - John (Book of the New Testament) KW - Yohan pogŭm KW - Yohane den (Book of the New Testament) KW - Yūḥannā (Book of the New Testament) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Ioganaĭ (Book of the New Testament) KW - Иоганай (Book of the New Testament) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:839361 AB - This study deals with the postmodern philosophy of language as developed mainly by French authors as R. Barthes, J. Derrida and J.-F. Lyotard. The four chapters of the first part are theoretical and relate the literary concepts of postmodernity, poststructuralism and deconstruction to the practice of biblical exegesis. One of the important conclusions is that deconstruction affects both diachronic and synchronic approaches of texts. Each chapter closes with -not suggestions but- implications for a postmodern, deconstructive strategy of reading. The four chapters of the second part apply this postmodern, deconstructive strategy of reading to the Fourth Gospel as a whole (chapter five), to John 6 (chapter six), to John 17 (chapter seven) and to John 21, 24-25 (chapter eight). This deconstructive reading shows the differential and apophatic character of Saint John's Gospel. ER -