Abstract
Book Title: The story of Jesus and the blind man: A speech act reading of John 9 Book Author: Hisayasu Ito Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto City, Japan. Acta Theologica , Supplementum 21 2015.
Highlights
When Ryken’s view is admitted, the literary critic finds it easier to accept the miracle whereby the blind man received his sight at face value
As far as Painter’s three purposes are concerned, since the water imagery points to spiritual cleansing from sin, the symbolism certainly deals with the problem of unbelief as the ultimate sin in Johannine terms,[54] confronts those who do not believe, and brings a new understanding about God through Jesus who was the true Siloam to which a sinner must come for cleansing
I shall discuss a macrospeech act on the character level
Summary
Does 10:21 explicitly refer back to the miracle event, and the relationships between Jesus, the blind man, and the Jewish authorities are and depicted in the figures of speech. The author of this Gospel does not intend to furnish the exact date and location of this miracle story. This information seems to be of little importance to him in this instance, one can assume this from the co‐text. Some critics assume that it is the temple area (Schnackenburg [1968] 1980:240; Jones 1997:165)
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