Gli spazi e i tempi del Messia in Gv 7

Numerous studies have been dedicated to the analysis of time and space in the Fourth Gospel, both diachronically and synchronically, not least with respect to sociological spatiality. The passage about the Feast of Tabernacles in John 7 lends itself particularly well to this kind of in-depth study, as it narrates a pilgrimage feast where time and space play a decisive role. The categories of E. Soja’s trialectics of spatiality and M. Bakhtin’s chronotope shed new light on the glorified body of Jesus, showing how it transcends the boundaries of space and time to become a reality that can be experienced by believers of every latitude and every epoch. In the dimension of a lived and imagined space and time, new opportunities are always open to the believer to participate in the eschatological worship instituted by Jesus and to transform the defined contours of their own existence. As far as we know, this approach is new from a methodological standpoint in the field of Johannine research.