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The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John is unavailable, but you can change that!

How do historical and literary details contribute to a coherent theological witness to Jesus in the Gospel of John? A leading British evangelical New Testament scholar answers that question with studies on themes from messianism to monotheism, symbolic actions from foot-washing to fish-catching, literary contexts from Qumran to the Hellenistic historians, and figures from Nicodemus to ‘the...

of the five disciples of Jesus (discussed in section V below), and also as the name of a scribe who lived in Magdala in the early second century CE, who appears in rabbinic traditions.69 I know of no other literary or epigraphic evidence for the name Nicodemus among Palestinian Jews. The name Gurion (גוריון) or Guria (גוריא, גוריה) is attested only in Josephus and rabbinic literature, and all instances I know, except three rabbis of the name and the father of two rabbis who lived in the period from
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