Wisdom Christology in the Prologue of John

In this article, the problems revolving around the Prologue and its relationship with the rest of the Gospel are investigated from a theological perspective. The research has tended to focus on such issues as the views of revelation and salvation found in the Prologue and the subsequent narrative and on their respective use of symbolism.

Brill's Publishing house, 2024

This is a article done for the series of John's Gospel. Published by the prestigiuos publishing house Brill, Netherlands. Edited by S. Porter and D, Yoon for the series on John's Gosoel.

1992

The question of how to read the Bible is a perennial one. How do we interpret the God who claims to transcend our human categories? The difficulty is particularly acute in John's Gospel with its account of a man, Jesus, who claims to be God. Based on the principle that a text can present the radically transcendent only by disrupting itself, this book considers not just the sense of the Gospel, but also the breakdown of this sense. Focusing on its failure to humanly locate its central character and on the many misunderstandings which surround him, it presents a new approach to the Gospel's paradoxes. The result is a new definition of this sacred text based on a new hermeneutics.

2004

This thesis investigates the ways in which Moses traditions are used in the Gospel of John. The term "Moses traditions" is meant to refer to the stories connected with the person of Moses in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Later developments of these traditions are taken into account, if they are relevant to John's use of Moses traditions. The study addresses three areas of concern: First, the literary context and narrative significance of each instance of a use of a Moses tradition in John's Gospel is investigated. Secondly, the probability of the suggested links to the Old Testament Vorlagen is assessed. It is argued that in many cases the identification of a suggested link cannot be strictly separated from the interpretation of the link. Thirdly, the theological significance of each suggested link is presented. It is argued that the most significant theological inference from the use of Moses traditions in John is the sociological function of the ch...

2013

The Christian message stands or falls with the concept and doctrine of Christ’s divinity. If one were to boil Christianity to its very basics the doctrine of Christology, the concept of Jesus’ divinity, would be found at its very center. It is the idea and doctrine that divides Christianity from other faith-based groups. The burden of proof then remains on the documents that hold the contents to prove this doctrine, the Greek New Testament (NT). Therefore, in order to validate Jesus’ divinity, a close examination must be done of the NT in order to flush out exactly where one can be certain of not only direct claims of Christ’s divinity but also what the NT authors claim about him. In this paper I will be taking a text critical approach towards the first chapter of John’s Gospel in regard to the bold title and assertion of Θεὸς as it is applied to Jesus and assess this title in 1:1 and 1:18; along with a short note on theological implication. This will be my main goal rather than assessing the origin of the understanding of Jesus as divine (although such details will be mentioned in passing), and will be employing a reasoned eclecticism method, of which is the current accepted view among textual critics.

2009

Distinctive features of the Johannine presentation of the beginning of Jesus\u27 ministry raise questions-- both for and against-- aspects of historicity in John 1-4

Biblical Annals, 2021

Book review of biblical research papers published by the group Colloquium Ioanneum edited by R. Alan Culpepper and Jörg Frey on the topics related to the fragment of John 1:19-2:22.