I will be teaching The Gospel of John during the Spring at Friends University for the first time. I would like to use the Jewish Festivals as one entry point...
Stan, See Jewish Feasts and the Gospel of John (Zacchaeus Studies : New Testament) by Gale A. Yee Other Editions: Paperback - December 1988. It's now out of...
Stan, I have devoted a chapter to this issue in my book, Let Her Keep It (Quantum Leap Publishers, 1998). My point there is that "oracles" used in the Mosaic ...
Stand and J-Lit Listers, Oops! I forgot to mention the title of Spong's book: Liberating the Gospels : Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes. Tom Butler ... ...
Dear Diane Part of the earliest available evidence concerning the nature of the Johannine Prologue is found in the First Epistle of John. It is difficult to...
Hello Mark, I am wondering if you had a chance to read through my paper? I know it is a poorly written paper, but I also believe the findings are very...
I apologize for the last post. It was intended to be offline and personal. Please disregard. Thank you. Matthew Estrada <matt_estrada@...> wrote: Hello...
With apologies for cross-posting, I trust that the following will be of interest to folks here: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has...
Also, on a related note, I would like to announce the "grand posting opening" of my new scholarly site, Religion and Literature! I welcome posts from anyone...
Greetings, friends, In the opening chapter of John's Gospel, we see the multitudes of people coming to John the Baptist to be baptised by him. But where was ...
Thanks, Yuri, for the good work, here. I too have been thinking that Bethabara is a more likely naming of the site intended by the Johannine evangelist (as...
... If the "Bethabara" reading at John 1:28 was original, the change to "Bethany" can easily be explained as an assimilation to the better known Bethany (e.g....
Thanks, Stephen, for the contribution, and also for mentioning Pierson Parker's essay. With Schackenburg, I find very little of Parker's essay on the...
Yuri, Paul and Stephen, Thank you for engaging in this stimulating discussion. I'm learning a great deal from it. Thank you for teaching! I was struck most...
Without wishing to break the flow of discussion concerning 'Bethany beyond the Jordan' can I be picky and insist that in John 1:27 the reference is to one...
Dear friends, Thank you for all your valuable comments in regard to my article. While researching about Bethabara, I came across an interesting note in...
... I think it's just Roger's transliteration. ... Yes. But may I ask that the next time you ask for a Greek text, you give the full reference of the text you...
... Make that KAI DEIKNUTAI hO TOPOS, EN hW KTL. JG -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon) 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. Chicago, Illinois e-mail jgibson000@......
I'm a little out of the loop these days, more's the pity for me. I was wondering what are the current views of authorship of the Gospel and Epistles and if...
Dear Larry, If you're looking for a more conservative answer to the date and authroship questions, check out Craig Blomberg's /The Historical Reliability of...
... Get ahold of _The Face of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research_ edited by Scot McNight and Grant Osbourne (Baker, 2004). There's an article ...
Hello: The thread name is my working title for a piece I am writing on the relationships among Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, and the Jesus Movement as it...
Joe, I assume you will be expanding on the phrase in Jn. 19: 38 where Joseph of Arimathea is identified as a secret disciple of Jesus. The following verse...
Hi Joe C. Some time back I posted a reference to a detailed paper written by Richard Bauckham concerning the possible / probable background of Nicodemus and...
Hi Joe, I'm reminded of a page I read recently, on www.eugenehalliay.org Click on 'text' and you'll find it at the end of a book entitled 'Truth'. "Caiphas,...
Hello, all. I joined this group because I recently began poking into various strange things in the Fourth Gospel and finding a number of wordplays and hidden...
Kevin, I would enjoy reading more of your theory regarding Nicodemus. I have advanced the theory that Lazarus is a literary character, representing the temple...
... is a purely fictional character, ... Dickens could hardly do better. << Kevin why 'purely'? Names have meaning from the beginning - Abel, wind, emptiness....
