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Aug 13, 2024 · The Gospel of John was likely scribed by Andrew in the presence of John and others, just as Hebrews was Paul’s Gospel, sent by Luke by way of Mark to Ephesus after the June 29, 57 A.D. deaths of Peter and Paul, John (and the Church of Ephesus) being the recognized “son of thunder” leadership of the Churches (with Peter’s departure) until John’s death about 41 years later.
Feb 22, 2024 · BAS Staff February 22, 2024 0 Comments 34056 views Share. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John—the four canonical Gospels—have come down to us in Greek. From old Greek manuscripts, the Gospels we use today have been translated countless times, into countless languages. These translations all differ from one another, allowing for multiple versions ...
Feb 20, 2024 · Their first main source was Eusebius of Caesarea (c. A.D. 260-340), the well-known early church historian, who noted that the Gospel of Peter was among the church’s rejected writings and had heretical roots.5 The second main source for the Gospel of Peter is a letter by Serapion, a bishop in Antioch (in office A.D. 199-211), titled “Concerning What is Known as the Gospel of Peter.”6 Bishop Serapion notes that the Gospel of Peter had docetic overtones and advised that church leaders not ...
Apr 23, 2014 · The “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” is back in the April 2014 issue of Harvard Theological Review. HTR gives the papyrus fragment considerable treatment beyond Karen L. King’s critical presentation of the papyrus; the issue includes a paleographic analysis by Malcolm Choat, a chemical ink analysis by James T. Yardley and Alexis Hagadorn ...
5 days ago · There is a very intriguing story, unique to the Gospel of John, about a wedding attended by Jesus and his disciples at the Galilean village of Cana (John 2:1–11). Within the Gospel of John the story functions in a theological and even allegorical manner—it is the “first” of seven signs, the “water into wine” story, but that is not ...
Aug 1, 2024 · Simon Gathercole examines the enigmatic Gospel of Thomas. Jesus says, “Blessed is the lion that a person will eat and the lion will become human.”. Jesus says, “Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.”. This third-century papyrus leaf—known as POxy 1—was discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt and contains ...
Mar 10, 2022 · John’s Gospel has for centuries been attributed to John, son of Zebedee, the beloved disciple at Jesus’ right hand. But the Gospel does not identify the mysterious beloved disciple, and John is never mentioned by name, and many scholars have asked how an illiterate Galilean fisherman from the 30s could possibly have authored this theologically sophisticated gem of the late first century.
Jan 14, 2024 · The Apocryphon of John, for example, is the most important tractate of classic Sethian Gnosticism. In it the risen Jesus reveals to John, son of Zebedee, the truth of creation. The Nag Hammadi codices contain more than 50 early Christian texts, including the Gospel of Thomas.
Oct 30, 2022 · In “‘Lost Gospels’—Lost No More” in the September/October 2016 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Biblical scholar Tony Burke challenges this assertion. “Today scholars of the Christian apocrypha are challenging this view of the loss and rediscovery of apocryphal texts,” explains Burke. “It has become increasingly clear that ...
Sep 5, 2024 · Paul was a gnostic and so was the author of the Gospel of John who makes reference to the bronze serpent (John 3:14), the one that Moses made as an anecdote to the bites of creatures referred as “seraphim” or “burning ones,” that are portrayed in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” as a category of infernal spirits who inhabit Hell an have a ...
