Ephesus or which had general currency in the larger imperial world. We can experience the rituals, social practices and conventions, institutions, societal structure, personal, and forth. That is, for this study the text of culture and history are centered on but not confined to imperial Ephesus. Such inter-textual study is concerned with how one text the John’s gospel participates within this larger context as it intersects with other imperial text. Secondly, the literary issues in the gospel of John are that Fernado Segovia has written on the Entrée into Johannine Reality is that a close study of the opening narrative of the prologue of the gospel (John 1: 1 – 18) seems to identify the ideological thrust of the gospel and draw out ramification. He builds on a careful literary analysis; he sets out to read the prologue as an ideological product. He shows that prologue constructs two worlds, the “other-world” and “this-world.” The other-world belongs to foundational time and space and consists of two figures: “God” and the “world.” It is male dominated because these two figures are designated Father and Son. In spite of the difference between the two worlds there is a close contact through the “Incarnated Word.” The aim of the ideological analysis is to enable the reader to …show more content…
This was a title that belonged solely to the emperor. Without question, the greatest pagan presence in Ephesus was the cult of Artenmis