Samaritan Israelites and Jews under the Shadow of Rome: Reading John 4:4–45 in Ephesus

Genealogies, knowledge, and purity all can provide separate identities with the means for competing self-definition. This article assumes a social location near Ephesus with Samaritan Israelites and Judeans in a Jesus-believing network. Rather than providing an analysis in which divisions are transc...

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Published in:Religions
Main Author: Hunt, Laura J. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 9
Further subjects:B Social Identity Theory
B Samaritan Woman
B Gospel of John
B heterarchy
B Bayes’ theorem
B Photini
B John 4
B ingroup projection
B New Testament
B social identity complexity
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Summary:Genealogies, knowledge, and purity all can provide separate identities with the means for competing self-definition. This article assumes a social location near Ephesus with Samaritan Israelites and Judeans in a Jesus-believing network. Rather than providing an analysis in which divisions are transcended, this reading suggests that a negotiation in John 4:4–45 of these three characteristics navigates divisions to create a complex, merged superordinate identity.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel14091149