Character studies in the Fourth Gospel: narrative approaches to seventy figures in John

An introduction to character and characterization in John and related New Testament literature / Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann

Table on the characters in the fourth gospel / Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann

John (the Baptist): the witness on the threshold / Catrin H. Williams

The world: promise and unfulfilled hope / Christopher W. Skinner

"The Jews": unreliable figures or unreliable narration? / Ruben Zimmermann

The priests and Levites: identity and politics in the search for a Messiah / Sherri Brown

The Pharisees: a house divided / Uta Poplutz

The disciples of John (the Baptist): hearers of John, followers of Jesus / Gary T. Manning, Jr.

An anonymous disciples: a type of discipleship / Derek Tovey

Andrew: the first link in the chain / Martinus C. de Boer

Simon Peter: an ambiguous character and his narrative career / Michael Labahn

Philip: a connective figure in polyvalent perspective / Paul N. Anderson

Nathanael: under the fig tree on the fourth day / Steven A. Hunt

The mother of Jesus: a woman possessed / Mary L. Coloe

The disciples: the "now" and "not yet" of belief in Jesus / Susan E. Hylen

The servants/steward at Cana: the "whispering wizard's" wine-bearers / Mary L. Coloe

The bridegroom at Cana: ignorance is bliss / Edward W. Klink III

The brothers of Jesus: all in the family? / Joel Nolette and Steven A. Hunt

The animal sellers/the money changers in the Temple: driven out - but why? / Mark A. Matson

Nicodemus: the travail of new birth / R. Alan Culpepper

"A Jew": a search for the identity and role of an anonymous Judean / Mark Appold

The Samaritan woman: a woman transformed / Harold W. Attridge

The men of the Samaritan woman: six of Sychar / Steven A. Hunt

The Samaritans of Sychar: a responsive chorus / Peter Phillips

The Galileans: interpretive possibilities and the limits of narrative critical approaches / Andy M. Reimer

The royal official: not so officious / Peter J. Judge

The son of the royal official: incarnating the life giving power of Jesus' word / Gilbert Van Belle and Steven A. Hunt

The slaves of the royal official: servants of the word / Peter J. Judge

The ill and the sick: those who were healed and those who were not / D. Francois Tolmie

The invalid at the pool: the man who merely got well / J. Ramsey Michaels

The crowd: a faceless, divided mass / Cornelis Bennema

The boy with loaves and fish: picnic, plot, and pattern / Dieter T. Roth

Judas (the Betrayer): the black sheep of the family / Cornelis Bennema

The authorities: indeterminate complex identities / Susanne Luther

The chief priests: masterminds of Jesus' death / Cornelis Bennema

The Temple police: double agents / Gary T. Manning, Jr.

The Greeks: Jesus' hour and the weight of the world / Sherri Brown

The scribes and the elders: mirror characterization of Jesus and his opponents in the Pericope adulterae / Chris Keith

The adulterous woman: nameless, partnerless, defenseless / Peter Phillips

The devil: murderer, liar, and defeated foe / Dave L. Mathewson

The man born blind: true disciple of Jesus / Andy M. Reimer

The neighbors of the man born blind: a question of identity / Matthew D. Montonini

The parents of the man born blind: the reason for fear without true reason / Michael Labahn

The believers across the Jordan: on location with Jesus / Ruben Zimmermann

Lazarus: "behold a man raised up by Christ!" / Marianne Meye Thompson

Mary (of Bethany): the anointer of the suffering Messiah / Susan Miller

Martha: seeing the glory of God / Gail R. O'Day

Thomas: question marks and exclamation marks / Thomas Popp

Caiaphas and Annas: the villains of the piece? / Adele Reinhartz

The beloved disciple: the ideal point of view / James L. Resseguie

Judas (not Iscariot): what's in a name? / Catrin H. Williams

The Roman soldiers at Jesus' arrest: "you are dust, and to dust you shall return" / Steven A. Hunt

Malchus: cutting up in the garden / Christopher W. Skinner

People in the courtyeard: escalating darkness / Helen K. Bond

Pontius Pilate: failing in more ways than one / D. Francois Tolmie

Barabbas: a foil for Jesus, the Jewish leadership, and Pilate / David L. Mathewson

The soldiers who crucify: fulfilling scripture / Michael Labahn

The co-crucified men: shadows by his cross / Chelsea N. Revell and Steven A. Hunt

The women by the cross: creating contrasts / D. Francois Tolmie

Mary Magdalene: beginning at the end / Jaime Clark-Soles

The mother of Jesus and the beloved disciple: how a new family is established under the cross / Jean Zumstein

Joseph of Arimathea: one of "the Jews," but with a fearful secret! / William John Lyons

The angels: marking the divine presence / Jan van der Watt

The sons of Zebedee and two other disciples: two pairs of puzzling acquaintances in the Johannine dénouement / Christos Karakolis.