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...
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Timothy P. Jenney
timothyjenney
Dec 1, 2005 7:07 pm
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...
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Tom Butler
pastor_tom_b...
Dec 2, 2005 3:37 pm
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 ...
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Tom Butler
pastor_tom_b...
Dec 2, 2005 4:16 pm
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 ... ...
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Bill Bullin
williambullin
Dec 5, 2005 10:59 am
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...
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Matthew Estrada
matt_estrada
Dec 21, 2005 2:31 pm
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...
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Matthew Estrada
matt_estrada
Dec 21, 2005 2:56 pm
I apologize for the last post. It was intended to be offline and personal. Please disregard. Thank you. Matthew Estrada <matt_estrada@...> wrote: Hello...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000
Feb 19, 2006 6:26 pm
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...
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Diane Yoder
torontoscholar
Feb 20, 2006 3:22 am
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...
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Yuri Kuchinsky
yuku
Mar 9, 2006 6:45 pm
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 ...
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Paul Anderson
pna4601
Mar 9, 2006 7:20 pm
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...
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Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson_min...
Mar 9, 2006 9:32 pm
... 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....
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Paul Anderson
pna4601
Mar 10, 2006 8:07 pm
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...
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Tom Butler
pastor_tom_b...
Mar 12, 2006 5:44 am
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...
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Bill Bullin
williambullin
Mar 12, 2006 8:16 am
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...
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Yuri Kuchinsky
yuku
Mar 13, 2006 9:56 pm
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...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000
Mar 13, 2006 10:13 pm
... 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...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000
Mar 13, 2006 10:20 pm
... 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@......
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Larry Swain
theswain1
Mar 16, 2006 10:31 pm
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...
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David A. Reed
dar_regis
Mar 17, 2006 2:40 pm
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...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000
Mar 17, 2006 3:38 pm
... 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 ...
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SemioticSymphony@...
winetattler
Mar 18, 2006 2:34 pm
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...
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Tom Butler
pastor_tom_b...
Mar 18, 2006 3:49 pm
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...
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SemioticSymphony@...
winetattler
Mar 18, 2006 11:45 pm
In a message dated 3/18/2006 10:50:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, pastor_t@... writes: I assume you will be expanding on the phrase in Jn. 19: 38...
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Bill Bullin
williambullin
Mar 19, 2006 10:37 am
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...
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SemioticSymphony@...
winetattler
Mar 20, 2006 12:04 am
In a message dated 3/19/2006 5:37:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, bill.bullin@... writes: Some time back I posted a reference to a detailed paper...
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John Bailey
yoganandabailey
Mar 21, 2006 9:44 am
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,...
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kalvachomer
Mar 21, 2006 9:45 am
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...
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Tom Butler
pastor_tom_b...
Mar 21, 2006 4:57 pm
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...
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Bob MacDonald
drmacdonald_...
Mar 21, 2006 5:41 pm
... is a purely fictional character, ... Dickens could hardly do better. << Kevin why 'purely'? Names have meaning from the beginning - Abel, wind, emptiness....
