Loading…

The Gospel and Letters of John, Volume 1: Introduction, Analysis, and Reference is unavailable, but you can change that!

Nearly all of the problems confronted by those who study John have to do with the literary strata of the Gospel of John and their relation to the composition of the Letters of John. With an archaeologist’s precision, and engaging a whole range of scholarly contributions in this area, von Wahlde digs down to the foundations and exposes three distinct literary strata in the development of the...

In the first edition, the Christology is “traditional.” Nowhere does the Christology speak of Jesus as divine. What confirms this view is the fact that not only are the titles and other affirmations about Jesus consistent with the traditional expectations of the Jews about the one-who-was-to-come but also the charges against Jesus by the religious authorities are formulated on this level.6 Among the questions
Page 399