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June 2016

June 20, 2016

John the Jew: The 2016 Enoch Seminar in Camaldoli, Italy

The 2016 Enoch Seminar on Johannine Christology as Jewish messianism has begun, meeting not only...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

No Greater Love (Updated Version)

It stumbles on its wording a little. But I still think the new version is...

November 2015

November 21, 2015

Saturday Morning at #SBLAAR15 – John, Jesus, and History

I got to Atlanta last night. This morning I picked up my tote bag which...

November 11, 2015

Time and Relative Dimension in the Gospel of John

Another great cartoon from Spike Davis.

August 2015

August 08, 2015

Michael Card on the Gospel of John

I am grateful to IVP for sending me review copies of Michael Card's most recent...

August 02, 2015

Cana Wedding Gift

The cartoon was shared by Allan Bevere, and seems to clearly be one of the Inherit...

June 2015

June 02, 2015

John the Jew (2016 Enoch Seminar Conference)

Next summer, the Enoch Seminar will hold a conference with the title "John the Jew: Reading...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

More #StuffJesusNeverSaid

This is an interesting one, because in John 6, the source of the quote which...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

A Journey Round John: Wendy North’s Forthcoming Book

I had drawn to my attention that a new book on a field of great...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

The Gospel of John in a Galaxy Far Far Away

In a recent blog post, Andrew McGowan suggested that the opening lines of the Gospel...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

What Could a Fisherman Compose?

I shared a link to a blog post by Jonathan Bernier a while back, which...

January 12, 2015

Jesus: Not God in New Testament Christologies

Here are links to three interesting posts related to New Testament Christology. In each case,...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

The Gospel of John as Jewish Mystical Work

One of the features of the new Bible Odyssey website is that it lets you...

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Books of John

As I've been working on the commentary on the Mandaean Book of John this summer,...

June 09, 2014

I AM – the Name of God?

On another thread, about whether Jesus claimed to be God, the subject of Jesus saying...

May 2014

May 13, 2014

I Am The Walrus/Logos

Roger Wolsey shared some thoughts about Jesus as yogi. His starting point, unsurprisingly, was the...

May 05, 2014

Problematic Papyri

Brice Jones has brought to light some disturbing news about the alleged first century fragment...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Are the Christologies of Paul and Mark Different?

In discussions of Christology, a major divide (as illustrated by the dueling books between Ehrman...

March 14, 2014

Al-Hallaj and the Johannine Jesus

Dustin Smith has continued posting a transcript from when he recently interviewed me. Unfortunately, one...

March 11, 2014

Wrestling with John’s Christology

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dustin Smith, of the blog Dustin...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

Mythicism in the Arctic Vortex

Johnny Walker responded to a response to a blog post of his about mythicism. If...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Seeing God

Kermit Zarley recently sought to make a clever Christological point based on the premise of...

November 05, 2013

RIP Robert Kysar

I have just learned that Robert Kysar, renowned scholar of the Gospel of John, has...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

His Testimony is Truthyish

The Gospel of John may be the first Gospel that we know of to bring...

August 08, 2013

Raymond Brown Website

Matthew Montonini has launched the Raymond E. Brown Website, with articles by Brown, videos of...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic

I had it drawn to my attention this morning that John Shelby Spong has a...

May 01, 2013

John, Jesus, and History Conference

Tom Thatcher sent around the news about an exciting-looking conference to be held in Baltimore...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

153 Fish – The Definitive Explanation

Today in my class on the Gospel of John we reached the final chapter. One...

April 11, 2013

Two Recent Commentaries on the Gospel of John: Introduction

I am grateful to Eerdmans for having sent me review copies of two commentaries on...

April 09, 2013

The Lost End of Mark

The classic study of The Four Gospels by B. H. Streeter is available online. I...

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