Hello Johannine Listers, I want to throw out for discussion the possibility of interpreting John's "water" symbolism as "the Law and the Prophets", or God the...
A Happy Christmas to one and all. You may understand this allegorically, if you wish, but I'm not at all sure what the "inner meaning" would be :-) Best Wishes...
Reference query: Has anyone published either articles or a monograph discussing the use of deictic markers and verbal aspect in the Fourth Gospel? I'm...
Matthew: Welcome to the club. I started working on my hypothesis about Gospel origins in 1963. In 1970 I submitted it as a thesis to New York University and ...
Matthew, Sorry, I can't buy your response. Joel 3: 18 comes a long way after the "Holy Spirit prophecy" at the end of Joel 2, and is separated from it by a...
Never thought I would end up agreeing with Mike Grondin :-), but I think he has a point in relation to the wine/Holy Spirit equivalence. The only time John...
I think W and H raise a good point with the following, though I haven't read enough to know where they went with it: No autograph of any book of the New...
EISTHKHSAN DE PARA TW STAURW TOU IHSOU H MHTHR AUTOU, KAI H ADELFH THS MHTROS AUTOU, MARIA H TOU KLWPA, KAI MARIA H MAGDALHNH. John 9.25 The KJ version has: ...
Mike Grondin, I can see your problem with the word "prophesy";, but many Biblical scholars will have great problems with your preferred word "prediction". In...
In a message dated 12/2/2003 2:38:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, mwgrondin@... writes: << Etic definitions of their emic terms, on the other hand, might...
Is there anybody on the list who believes that the account given in John's gospel should take precedence over the other gospels, both in terms of the accuracy...
With apologies for cross posting. FYI, here's the head count as of 11:45am Friday, Nov. 21st, 2003, of those E-Listers who intend to attend the SBL conference...
Once again apologies for cross posting! This is the Third and Final Notice/Announcement of the 7th Annual E-Lister's SBL meeting on Saturday, November 22nd, at...
Before proceeding further with some questions, I wanted to double check with the moderator (and everyone) as to the place of Revelation on this list. On the...
In a recent post, I suggested that a passage from the Gospel of Philip can help us to understand who are the women in John 19:25. In this post, I would like...
With Apologies for cross posting: As promised, here is the List of those e-Listers who have let me know that they intend to attend SBL and the SBL E-Lister's...
Apologies for cross posting! This is the Third announcement of the 7th Annual E-Lister's SBL meeting on Saturday, November 22nd, at 11 am the Gramcord Booth...
Dear Group, Would anyone have the texts (or links thereto)of two homilies given by Meister Eckhardt about Jn 11:27 which is Martha's profession of faith? Best...
For those interested, I have just revised my webpage through Seattle University, and have put up more of my John essays thereon--some unpublished. Perhaps...
Hi Mart: The paper I delivered before the Mid-Atlantic regional SBL meeting last spring dealt with, among other things, the anonymity of the mother of Jesus in...
As part of my research for: http://www.fourthgospel.com I am trying to locate a library that carries, or has copies of the item listed below. My inter-library...
Apologies for cross posting! This is the second announcement of the 7th Annual E-Lister's SBL meeting on Saturday, November 22nd, at 11 am the Gramcord Booth...
Dear All: Will any on the list either be attending or submitting papers to the Regional meeting of SBL/ ASOR April 1-2 2004? Joe C. [Non-text portions of this...
As you know, my third daughter Catherine is to marry Martin on Saturday. For the third time we have chosen Jn 2:1-12 for the Gospel text. For me, the most...
Timothy and John, Timothy, you wrote: <<<This is also my sense: that chiasms are part of a NE cultural mindset, as is some tendency to group things in sevens...
I take it people have read Stephen Moore's interesting spin on the symbols of blood and water in John in Literary Criticism and the Gospels. Some imaginative...
Kym writes: "Thinking and writing chiastically was very much part of eastern culture, particularly Jewish." Actually here, Kym, you undermine your whole case....
Kym's references to the Muratorian Fragment have only tangential importance to this discussion. I cannot believe that we could argue that the Fragment has...
Dear Peter, Ken, and Colleagues, Because most members of our group are not "moderated", every now and then an automatic "Out of Office" message gets through to...
