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At the beginning of his gospel, John refers to Jesus Christ as the Logos—the “Word.” Author John Ronning makes a case that the Jewish Targums—interpretive Aramaic translations of the Old Testament that were read in synagogues—hold the key to understanding John’s descriptive use of Logos as a title for Jesus. Ronning examines numerous texts in the fourth gospel in light of the Targums and shows...

nothing as explicit as “and Wisdom became flesh,” but Dodd notes that the fact that Wisdom is immanent among men “provides a kind of matrix in which the idea of incarnation might be shaped.” In addition, he notes that the Wisdom literature comes closer to the proposition “the Word was God” because “the functions assigned to Wisdom are often clearly those which are elsewhere assigned to God Himself.”13 For example, while the passages quoted above speak of Wisdom dwelling among humankind (specifically,
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