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The ‘Theatre of Performance’ and ‘The Living Word’ of Jesus in the Farewell Discourse(s) in John's Gospel

ABSTRACT While there has been a renewed interest in apocalyptic writings as an expression of Jewish and Christian mystical practice, there has been relatively little exploration of the concrete aspects of performance. Exploration of the role of Christian prophets in mediating and creating Jesus tradition flourished in the early 1980's following the work of Bultmann, Käsemann, Neugebauer, Boring, and Aune. A new interest in Jewish and Christian prophecy has followed the exploration of apocalyptic as a separate genre from eschatology, and the rediscovery of mystical ascent traditions in the work of Rowland, John J. Collins, VanderKam, and Schäfer. Neither of these research trajectories has satisfactorily explained the oral performative aspects of such prophetic tradition, nor how it relates to apocalyptic in literary form. Based on research into prophets in the earliest (first-century) Christian regulation of such practice in the Didache, this paper explores the creative oral performative aspects of Christian prophets discernible in the Farewell Discourse(s) of the Gospel of John.