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Reading for polemic–the anatomy of a questionable hermeneutic
The celebrated work of J. Louis Martyn and Raymond E. Brown helped to popularize the theory that the Fourth Gospel contains a ”two-level drama.” This two-level drama, they argue, reflects the...
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Joel Williams on Robert Stein’s Mark Commentary
I just received the most recent email from the Review of Biblical Literature and in it Joel Williams provides a helpful review of Bob Stein’s commentary on the Gospel of Mark in the BECNT Series....
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“If you label me, you negate me. . . .”
These words of Soren Kierkegaard come to mind as I learn of the proposal to begin reclassifying biblioblogs as conservative, moderate, liberal, etc. You can look here, here, here, and here to read...
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Patterson reviews DeConick
I’ll be back soon with post #4 on Paul’s relationship to the Gospel of Thomas. For now, check out Stephen Patterson’s review of April DeConick’s The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a...
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Amen amen I say to you: The NET Bible and the Greek text of the Fourth Gospel...
A few weeks back I posted an entry about my dissatisfaction with the NET Bible’s rendering of the Johannine phrase, amen amen lego hymin. Yesterday Dr. Michael Burer (Assistant Professor of New...
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Paradigm Shifts and Early Christian Studies
I recently cited Thomas Kuhn’s description of a “paradigm shift” at the beginning of an article I was writing for a forthcoming edited volume. The quotation reads: All crises begin with the blurring of...
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My latest book
Kelly Iverson and I have recently finished editing a book with SBL Press, entitled Mark as Story: Retrospect and Prospect. I have mentioned it a few times on this blog over the past year and a...
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Rome and the Gospel of John (Part Four)
John’s Historical Context and Rhetoric of Distance Since the publication of J. L Martyn’s groundbreaking work, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel (1968),[1] Johannine scholars have relied...
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Rome and the Gospel of John (Part Five)
Augustan Ideology, the Son of God, and John’s Prologue Unlike Warren Carter (see previous post), Lance Byron Richey begins his book, Roman Imperial Ideology and the Gospel of John, by affirming the...
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Rome and the Gospel of John (Part Six)
Is Rome anywhere in view in John’s Gospel? In light of the discussion in the previous five posts (here, here, here, here, and here), the answer to this question must necessarily be, “Yes.” There is no...
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