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Johannine scholarship is divided on whether the mimetic imperative in John 13:15 calls for a literal replication of the footwashing or is a general reference to humble (loving) service. My argument is that for the author mimesis involves primarily the creative, truthful, bodily articulation of the idea and attitude that lie behind the original act rather than its exact replication. The Johannine concept of mimesis is a hermeneutical process that involves both the understanding of the original act and a resulting mimetic act that creatively but faithfully articulates this understanding.
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Thomas, Footwashing, 110, 128. Other supporters of a literal fulfilment of the footwashing since Thomas are M.L. Coloe, “Welcome into the Household of God: The Foot Washing in John 13,” cbq 66 (2004) 411-415 (to welcome believers into God’s family); J.G. van der Watt, “Ethics and Ethos in the Gospel according to John,” znw 97 (2006) 170-174 (to express unreserved love for one another); J.H. Neyrey, “The Foot Washing in John 13:6-11: Transformation Ritual or Ceremony,” in The Gospel of John in Cultural and Rhetorical Perspective (ed. J.H. Neyrey; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009) 366-367 (to express hospitality at a meal and confirm roles and statuses); C. Niemand, Die Fusswaschungserzählung des Johannesevangeliums: Untersuchungen zu ihrer Entstehung und Überlieferung im Christentum (sa 114; Rome: Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo, 1993) 383-386, 411 (to initiate and welcome John the Baptist’s disciples into the Johannine community).
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G. Gebauer and C. Wulf, Mimesis: Culture, Art, Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) 25-59; S. Halliwell, The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002); M. Potolsky, Mimesis (New York: Routledge, 2006) chs. 1-3.
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Cf. W.P. de Boer, The Imitation of Paul: An Exegetical Study (Kampen: Kok, 1962) ch. 3; H.D. Betz, Nachfolge und Nachahmung Jesu Christi im Neuen Testament (bht 37; Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1967) 48-136; Elizabeth A. Castelli, Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1991) ch. 3.
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Cf. W. Schenk, Kommentiertes Lexikon zum Vierten Evangelium: Seine Textkonstituenten in ihren Syntagmen und Wortfeldern (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1993) 222-223.
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