A construção biográfica nos evangelhos como fiadora da imagem soteriológica de Jesus

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze how the set of narrative constructions of the Gospels of Matthew and John consolidates a heterobiographic saying project that legitimizes soteriological ethos of Jesus. We take the notion of ethos as an image that the subject undertakes discursively, closely linked to speech without reserving it to judicial eloquence or orality, but considering that any written speech has a specific voicing, which would relate it to an enunciative source (MAINGUENEAU, 2010). In order to analyze this Jesus’ discursive ethos, we chose three objectives that allowed the implementation of the research, which are to identify the characteristics of the narrative saying project, to describe the linguistic mechanisms for constructing the ethos and to analyze how Jesus’ ethos built by the writers in each gospel is used as guarantor of these persuasive narratives. Our methodological approach presents the criteria adopted for the selection, organization and corpus analysis. It uses a qualitative approach of interpretation, since our interpretation obeys Maingueneau’s perspective. Then, the presentation of the results shows that, despite the Gospels demonstrate that there are many similar characteristics to biographical texts, their purpose goes beyond the narrative act, for the disciples building a soteriological ethos of Jesus in an attempt to persuade the largest number of people being devout Christianity.