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Poetics of the Flesh
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7493-0
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Becoming Flesh: The Gospel of John
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Published:September 2015
This chapter treats the poetics of flesh in the Gospel of John, highlighting the movement of central images: flesh, bread, spirit, and water. The gospel articulates the incarnation in terms of “flesh” rather than body. Salvation is envisioned through flesh. The chapter traces the gospel’s characterization of flesh, which emphasizes its transformations as it is distributed and shared. Flesh, in this gospel, is elemental. But this elemental vitality is intertwined with death. “Flesh” evokes the way in which life and death are embedded in material processes that act on human bodies. The final section of the chapter attends to the...
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