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Voices of the Mystics: Early Christian Discourse in the Gospels of John and Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gospel of John has always been perceived as a more mystical Gospel than the Synoptics. This volume explores the mysticism of John in its historical context. It puts forward evidence that the mysticism developed in this text is the result of the textualization of a dialogue between the Johannine and Thomasine Christians on the subject of soteriology. In contradiction to the Christians who...

‘true vine’ imagery. The major interpretative problem with Draper’s piece is that he does not seem to recognize that even though the Johannine author may be aware of Merkavah mystical themes, this does not mean that he employed them in a comparable manner. In fact, I will be arguing in this monograph that the Johannine author ‘corrects’ many of the Jewish mystical themes such as his statement against heavenly ascent in 3:13. Only Jesus can move freely back and forth between earth and heaven. At the
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