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Gospel of John

August 2022

August 10, 2022
I'm worried that this post will be flagged on social media because of the title....
August 01, 2022
Visiting two of the pools mentioned in the Gospel of John connected directly not just...

January 2022

January 10, 2022
Given how much of the Gospel of John reflects polemical interaction with followers of John...

June 2021

June 11, 2021
From GCRR Press GCRR Press is currently inviting papers for a themed article collection relating...

April 2021

April 29, 2021
The new theme in my Sunday school class is an exploration of "doublets" in the...

February 2021

February 25, 2021
The next issue of Biblical Archaeology Review will be out in a few days. It...

December 2020

December 05, 2020
I am serious about what I suggest in the title of this blog post, even...

November 2020

November 23, 2020
I remain indebted to Stephen Colbert for coming up with the concept of 'truthiness'. As...

July 2020

July 20, 2020
My Sunday school class returned to the Gospel of John as part of our discussion...
July 16, 2020
We finally wrapped up our study of the Gospel of John in my Sunday school...

May 2020

May 19, 2020
I love the way the internet makes interesting and genuinely useful connections between things that...
May 17, 2020
I'll start this post with another tidbit from my Sunday school class from a while...

February 2020

February 23, 2020
Here I am returning to a session that I didn't manage to blog about at...

October 2019

October 17, 2019
There have been a number of blog posts about recent research by Elizabeth Schrader on...

August 2019

August 06, 2019
I have consistently been one of those who said that all questions are worth asking,...

April 2019

April 19, 2019
Working through the Gospel of John in my Sunday school class, we conveniently reached the...

February 2019

February 28, 2019
Today, as the #BUDayofGiving (actually 1855 minutes of giving) for 2019 draws to a close,...
February 09, 2019
It was interesting recently to read well-known words from 1 John with the story in...

December 2018

December 02, 2018
As my Sunday school class moved into John 11 a while back, the fact that...

September 2018

September 25, 2018
As I teach my class on the historical Jesus and work on my project related...
September 18, 2018
I have asked before whether Jesus had the kinds of cross-cultural experiences that typically enable...

June 2018

June 03, 2018
I have had some conversations recently with someone who thinks that circular arguments are sometimes...

February 2018

February 17, 2018
I really enjoyed learning from student blog posts not only what they are finding engaging...

January 2018

January 22, 2018
This page from a children's Bible, which a friend shared on Facebook, seems to me...

August 2016

August 04, 2016
After lunch, Risto Uro spoke about the use of cognitive science in the study of...

June 2016

June 23, 2016
This is the final day of the 2016 Enoch Seminar meeting on the Gospel of...
June 22, 2016
The morning sessions I attended both focused on John 5. We explored fascinating questions such...
June 21, 2016
Today was even more thrilling than yesterday, as we began to move beyond stating the...
June 20, 2016
The 2016 Enoch Seminar on Johannine Christology as Jewish messianism has begun, meeting not only...

January 2016

January 30, 2016
It stumbles on its wording a little. But I still think the new version is...
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