This is a slightly revised version of Hernández Carracedo’s doctoral dissertation written under the supervision of Santiago Guijarro Oporto and defended at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain. It focuses on the characterization of Jesus in the narrator’s notes in the Gospel of John. Using insights from modern linguistics, especially teoría de la polifonía del discurso (speech polyphony theory) and teoría de la enunciación (theory of written statements), Hernández Carracedo explores how Jesus’s being, relationships, and actions contribute to his identidad narrativa (narrative identity). After a brief history of research, the author selects the texts that will be the object of his study and explores the presentation of Jesus in the five main sections of the Gospel.
His findings are noteworthy. First, the parentheses were intended to clarify the identity of Jesus, because in the first century this issue was the object of contradictory interpretations. Second, the narrator’s notes do not...
