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The Jewish Targums and John’s Logos Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

is also discontinuity, in that the ark is no more, the temple seems insignificant compared with its former glory (Hag 2:3), and there is no statement “the glory of the LORD filled the temple.” Instead, there is a promise for the future in light of the present, apparent relative insignificance of the temple: “I will shake all the nations; and they will come [with] the wealth of all the nations; and I will fill this house with glory,” says the LORD of hosts.… “The latter glory of this house will be
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