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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers the author's insights on the issue of plagiarism and imitation. The author argues borrowing of intellectual property is natural, inevitable, and normal while stealing raises indignation. The author says that artistic meaning of good involves an original and unique creation while bad is denoted by an intention to deceive.

1QHodayota 11:6-19 exemplifies some of the techniques by which an author could, successfully, imitate biblical language without, simultaneously, implying that the reuse was exegetical. Seven scriptural texts-each crafted around themes of life, death, or the sea-dictated the poem's themes and much of its vocabulary (Jonah 2:3-7; Ps 77:17-18; 107:23-27; Isa 66:7; Jer 10:13/51:16; Job 36:16-17; 41:23). The author of 1QHa 11:6-19 mimicked the biblical idiom of these sources, but, to avoid evoking the sources too clearly, the author broke up and/or adapted many of the most rare and distinctive of the borrowed locutions. In those cases where the author reused multiple locutions from a single source-text, the borrowed elements were separated from one another, scattered widely across the new poem. The outcome was a new text that reflected biblical expression and style, yet it did not offer or imply any interpretation of the sources of that style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the Sīniyyah of Ahmad Shawqī (1868-1932) in relation to that of al-Buhturī, focusing on the meaning of architecture. His Sīniyyah poem, entitled "The Journey to al-Andalus," is well-known as a mu˛āradah (imitation) of the Sīniyyah by an eminent ˛Abbāsid poet, al-Buhturī (821-897 C.E.). Shawqī's Sīniyyah can be seen as a double imitation of poem and architecture. On the one hand, Shawqī's work is a literary imitation of a neo-classical poet imitating a classical poet. On the other hand, it is a description/imitation of Andalusian architecture. His act attempts to reconstruct a lost past, one through the verbal imitation/emulation of a verbal art work/monument, the other through the verbal description of plastic/architectural monuments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]