My wife and I made a special spiritual pilgrimage on our first year anniversary to view Gospel of John. The nearest place it was showing was 8 hours away in Hickory, North Carolina. We arrived Saturday morning, found the theater and waited patiently for the 2 PM showing. We were not disa...
This volume contains 13 essays written between 1900 and the present day. Each of them takes as its starting point the Gospel of John as a literary unity. The volume as a whole traces literary studies of John back to the early 1900s and charts their development from then. Some of these ...
"This reviewer is off on his dates of the “gospels.” John was written around 100 AD, Matthew between 70 AD-100 AD, and Mark between 60 AD-70 AD. No gospel was written “a few years after Jesus' death.” No “orthodox” gospel was written by any disciple."...
The present dissertation on the pericopae of the Gospel of John in the Synaxarion section of the Greek Gospel lectionary hopes to ignite an interest in the lectionary tradition within the discipline of New Testament Textual Criticism. The pages of this dissertation are the groundwork for the ...
There is a case to be made that John, the son of Zebedee, had already died long before the Gospel of John came to be written. It is worth noting for its own sake, even though the "beloved disciple" need not be identified with John, the son of Zebedee. In his ninth century ...
Date. While the Gospel of Luke displays an interest in the fall of Jerusalem, Acts seems to conclude before AD 70 when Jerusalem fell. Probably Luke was written in the 60s AD, prior to AD 70. The place of composition could be Achaia or Rome, Antioch or Caesarea. We are not sure. ...
THE NAME OF THE PLACE WHERE JOHN BAPTIZED IS NOT BETHANY, AS IN MOST COPIES, BUT BETHABARA. PROOF OF THIS. ATTENTION IS TO BE PAID TO THE PROPER NAMES IN SCRIPTURE, WHICH ARE OFTEN WRITTEN INACCURATELY, AND ARE OF IMPORTANCE FOR INTERPRETATION (Book VI, Ch 5) ...
Examining ten Graeco-Roman bio-graphies written before, and ten after the four Gospels, Burridge concludes the Gospels fit the pattern of the Graeco-Roman bios. Burridge makes the point that the author of John is fully entitled to put 'words into Jesus' mouth' so long as they reflect the...
This rule is also applied in the Bible, and the Gospel of Matthew, which has the most exaggeration and fiction, has surpassed the Gospel of Mark, which is comparatively the most true, and has become the first gospel. The Gospel of Matthew, which is believed to have been written by Matthe...
REALIZE what it means to say, “LIGHT has COME into this WORLD, but MEN have LUSTED after the SHADES of DARKNESS MORE than the PURE PERFECT LIGHT of TRUTH!”(John 3:14-21) For it is ONLY who BELIEVE in HIM beyond ALL MEN .. who attain in FAITH FAITHFUL unto ONE, the WAY of ...