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....
... Kevin, Agreed. The long speech in 3:1ff., in which the theology and style is typically Johannine, looks very much like an imaginative composition by the ...
Joe, I don't see how your title could offend anyone. Other than "symphony," the image of layers of an onion is often used. I like symphony better ... Its...
What literary characteristics do you see that leads you to believe that Nicodemus is a fictional character? I have no opinion on the subject, but as a...
I really don't think there is much possibility of determining whether a character is real [or not] from the internal evidence of 4G. That's not just true for...
Tim, Diane and all, My interest in considering any character in the 4G as a literary character grows especially out of my consideration of Lazarus, who appears...
Tom, Diane, Tim, Some brief if belated responses. Tom, I don't see Nicodemus as representing the Sanhedrin, even though as a "leader of the Jews" and "teacher...
... Diane, John 3:1ff. has a style and vocabulary typical of the gospel as a whole, with no detectable distinction based on whether the words belong to Jesus, ...
Hi Tom and All, ... So where do we go from here when there are no other historical written sources to help us out? If we consider that everything that ever...
Thank you Ron! Are there any extra-biblical texts written around the same time as John's gospel that one can compare with the style of John, to see if there...
