Filtvedt, Ole Jakob: Born 1984; Master of Theology from MF Norwegian School of Theology and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen; 2014 PhD from MF Norwegian School of Theology; currently postdoctoral research fellow at MF Norwegian School of Theology.

1.1 Starting Points, Key Terms, Basic Thesis, and Questions of Research 1.2 Revelation and Self-Perception in John: Beyond Bultmann 1.3 What We Do and Do Not Mean by Self-Perception 1.4 Textual Basis and Hermeneutical Challenges 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Nicodemus and the Baptist as Parallel Figures 2.3 Approaching the Question of the Baptist's Self-Perception 2.4 Unworthy and Inferior 2.5 Knowing that He Once Did not Know: 1:31-33 2.6 Associating Himself with the Earth (3:31) 2.7 Two Key Issues in Jesus' Encounter with Nicodemus 2.8 The Limits of the Flesh and the Necessity of Birth from Above (3:6-7) 2.9 The Man who Thought he Knew Jesus: Exposing the Ignorance of Israel's Teacher 2.10 Conclusions 3.1 The Thesis of the Present Chapter 3.2 Blindness, Sight and Self-Perception in 9:39-41 3.3 Revelatino and Conflict: Jesus' Dialogue with his Brothers (7:3-9) 3.4 The Offense of Freedom: John 8:31-36 3.5 Identifying and Confronting the Slaves to Sin 3.6 Ironic Denial that One Needs Help: An Ancient Trope Expressed in Epictetus 3.7 Conclusions Excursus: The Woman Caught in Adultery (John 7:53-8:11) 4. Peter: Imitation and Limitation 4.1 The Thesis of the Present Chapter 4.2 The Misunderstanding: Role Confusion 4.3 The Problem: Imitation and Limitation 4.4 Towards a Solution: Imitation and Dependence (21:18-19) 4.5 Conclusions: Peter, Revelation and Self-Perception 5.1 Recognizing Truth that Runs Contrary to Appearance 5.2 Pilate Facing the True Kind - and Himself 5.3 Revelation and Self-Perception: Jesus and Pilate 6.1 Our Key Findings and Primary Contribution to Scholarship 6.2 Shedding New Light on Well-Known Passages