Sourcebook of the Structures and Styles in John 1-10: The Johannine Parallelisms and Chiasms

No other book in the New Testament compares to John in its complexity of style and structure. So many factors confuse Johannine scholars including the complexity of styles repetition duplication and seemingly distracted structures that are difficult to discern. Sourcebook of the Structures and Styles in John 1-10 is designed to scrutinize the structures and styles in John 1-10 reading John according to Johns way with the following integrated points of view: First this reading is indebted to both diachronic and synchronic approaches. Second macro structure and micro style are treated together and interactively. Third specific and overall analyses are made together. Fourth grammatical and relational considerations are brought together. Fifth syntactic semantic and pragmatic relations are considered all together. Sixth both parallelisms and chiasms (including their variations) are examined whether in macro structure or in micro style without excluding either. Seventh all types of parallelisms and chiasms are examined whether simple or complex. Eighth ancient and modern ways in writing-reading processes complement each other. Ninth Western and Eastern perspectives become complementary. Tenth the Greek text and its English version (by the author) are used interactively. Eleventh analysis and discussion are brought to complement one another. Sang-Hoon Kim is Associate Professor of New Testament at Chongshin University and Seminary in Seoul South Korea.