The New English Bible was often one of the more daring translations in many ways, from heavy conjectural emendations in the Old Testament, through startling (and not always successful) turns of phrase everywhere. As I was reflecting on John 6 on this feast of Corpus Christi, I tracked down a vague memory that the NEB [...]
Nathan Stitt points to a book that also comes as a free PDF and e-book. It’s on that hardy old perennial of the identity of the author of the fourth gospel. I’m never quite sure why that should excite more interest than the identity of the authors of any of the other three. Nor do [...]
Nick Norelli persuades me that I should add Bauckham’s book to my reading list. But on the issue of the foot-washing I have a few questions.
Does Bauckham argue that Jesus at some point in his ministry washed the feet of one or more of his disciples, or does he argue that on the night he [...]
I want to pull a quick thread out of the comments on yesterday’s round-up. (You can skip below the quotes if you’re in a hurry.) In the course of the post I said:
Soloveichik says: “When someone asserts divinity, his interlocutor has only two options: Believe, obey, and worship, or back away slowly.” But did the [...]
I have noted before that there is a good case to be made for saying John’s gospel reflects a far stronger anti-James polemic than anything in Paul. In a fairly interactive sermon today (which in the UK is Mothering Sunday – and was long before the corruption of it into Mothers’ Day) we looked at [...]
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world — he’s going to have a church to do that.
(An irreverent thought that popped into my mind while reading today’s gospel!)
I confess to a fairly thoroughgoing ignorance of scholarship on John, so for all I know this ground is well-trod elsewhere, though I haven’t tracked anything down. But it seems to me that while everybody admits, in varying degrees if discord, to serious disagreements between James and Paul, the Jerusalem church and the Pauline mission, [...]
