Reading the Tapestry proposes a literary-rhetorical, temporal process of reading the fourth Gospel’s resurrection narrative (John 20-21) from the perspective of the implied reader in the text, according to the strategies of the implied author. Informed by narrative criticism and reader response criticism, Larry Darnell George unpacks the narrative and rhetorical devices of the three episodes and twelve scenes and argues that the entire resurrection narrative represents a finely woven tapestry, a coherent unified narrative text on its own terms and as it now stands.

The Author: Larry Darnell George received his Ph.D. in New Testament and Hebrew Bible from Vanderbilt Graduate School of Religion in 1997. He is the co-editor of What Does It Mean to be Black and Christian? (1995). He is currently the Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Biblical Literature and Languages at Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio.