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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...

This book grew out of a sabbatical in the United States in the fall of 2002. I had actually intended to do some writing on the OT historical books at that time, but I first wanted to follow up on something I had been thinking about from a course in Aramaic I had taken long before. Some reading I did for that course argued that the Logos title in John was rooted in the Targums—the Aramaic translations of the Hebrew OT. I thought that such a view made good sense in light of echoes in John 1:14
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