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The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, and Sabbath), to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, and sociological approaches), from...

actions on Jesus’ behalf mark him as a disciple. Joseph and Nicodemus appear as secret disciples in John, and it may be that John has presented them thus by way of representing further those who believed but refused to confess their faith publicly “for they loved human praise more than the praise of God” (12:42–43). On the other hand, their actions would have been initiated at no little risk to themselves; Jesus had been executed as an insurrectionist and they might easily have been implicated
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