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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Esther Barbara Kobel Mouttet; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ruben Zimmermann; Prof. Dr. Adele Reinhartz
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Semantics (Joh 8,23)
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
3 | 25
Contents:
The spatial turn was set in motion by postmodern American cultural theorists and since the late 1980s – because it pays particular attention to space as a cultural, social, political, quantity, etc. – represents a paradigm shift in cultural and social sciences. Spatial issues are also gaining increasing attention in the field of New Testament studies. The aim of this course is to illuminate the fascinating world of real and imagined spatial realities and the perceptions of locations in the Gospel of John and to discuss the broad spectrum of spatial metaphorics, spatially connoted forms of expression, and topologically charged imaginative content within this Gospel. The spatial sensitivity becomes clear in many passages of the Fourth Gospel, such as the idea of a "birth from above" (John 3:3), the talk of the crucifixion as an "exaltation" (John 12:32–33), or the promise of "many dwellings" in the Father's house (John 14:2–3), to name just a few examples.
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