Archive for September, 2006
This is the question that I continually think upon. The early stages of Christian history recount the struggle of identifying the person of Jesus often drawing on the Gospel of John as the source of Jesus’ idenity. But John’s Gospel does not always paint a wholistic picture of Jesus. Sometimes the Gospel [...]
I have been reading one of the classic introductions to Johannine literature Understanding the Fourth Gospel by John Ashton. Because my dissertation topic relates to the Gospel of John and the Historical Jesus, I keep looking for various angles on doing Historical Jesus work on this Gospel. Ashton introduces twenteith-century Johannine-study in the [...]
On the SBL John-Jesus-History Group website (found here) two new books have been announced related to the historicity of John and Jesus. One book by Paul N. Anderson entitled The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus is scheduled to print in late August. I have already read an advanced copy. Anderson [...]
I got my SBL book in the mail today. I already looked through it. This will be my first year to attend the meeting which is going to take place in Washington DC. I am hoping that I will be able to find a room-mate to stay with. If any [...]
