Over, under, and through John’s story of Jesus are unforgettable ideas and concepts, profoundly simple and simply profound, for the author’s own audience and beyond. These ideas did not originate in a vacuum. They have recurred and been repeated before and after the writing of the Fourth Gospel. For this reason we will examine the meaning of its words and themes in the context of its Jewish-Greco-Roman milieu. Much of our intertextual understanding will be derived from alleged parallels that involve comparisons of similar vocabulary and phrases, as well as parallel concepts and images from the Old Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, and other relevant writings. Such parallels will help to determine the meaning of a word or expression, the translation of a particular language, determining any direct influences upon the Fourth Gospel, parallel traditions, or the influence of its ideas, as a creative and inspiring work of later antiquity.
As James F. Ross asserts, this implies that the prophets' authority is ultimately derived from the divine council itself.39 Again, Second Isaiah, in some respects the prophet par excellence (since his whole identity is absorbed into his ...
In this exegetical study of the Gospel of John, Andreas Kostenberger strives to discover and articulate a throroughtly biblical theology of mission which would have contemporary implications for how the church responds to Christ's mandate.
The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.
John A. Baker (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1964), pp. 39-42. * Cf. J. de Zwaan, “The Edessene Origin of the Odes of Solomon,” Quantulacumque: Studies Presented to Kirsopp Lake, ed. Robert P. Casey, Silva Lake and Agnes K. Lake ...
Argues that the Fourth Gospel has “political dimensions” which offer both meaning and challenge to contemporary Christians.
Maurice Casey describes John's motivation in “dropp[ing] Jesus' genuine preaching of the kingdom of god and offer[ing] the drastic transmutation of John 18:36, 'My kingdom is not of this world' ” as a way of dealing with the impact of ...
... world. From the beginning, they hear a new language. Jesus's announcement of the Kingdom of God gives way to a new conceptual world. The prologue of the Fourth Gospel (John 1:1–18) is already characterized by this change of paradigm ...
... Gospel of John . Commentators from the 1950's until today have continued to give a generally positive assessment of the value of the Dead Sea Scrolls for understanding the conceptual world and background of the Fourth Gospel.3 ...
Davidson, J. A. “The Well of Women of Scripture Revisited.” JournAdventTheolSoc 17 (2006): 209–228. Davies, John A. “'Discerning ... In Orality and Textuality in Early Christian Literature, 1–6. Semeia 65. Atlanta: SBL, 1995. ———.
apt visualization of this is a river with a constant ripple.171 Newton himself wrote, “All motions can be accelerated and retarded, but the Áowing of absolute time cannot be changed.”172 Strongly inÁuenced by his theology,173 Newton ...