John's gospel is different from the other three in the New Testament. That fact has been recognized since the early church itself. Already by the year 200, John's gospel was called the spiritual ...

Charlesworth, ed. Jews and Christians: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future (New York: Crossroad: 1990): 76-96. The Gospel of John seems on the face of it a poor basis for Jewish-Christian dialogue ...

It is not surprising that Rosemary Ruether has found the fullest development of New Testament anti-Jewish bias within the Gospel of John. 1 Her estimate of the gospel's anti-Jewish stance reflects the ...

King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised ...

When was Jesus born? When did he die? What was his socioeconomic class? How did he fit in the religious, political and ...

A member of an Orthodox synagogue, Levine speaks frequently to Christian audiences. Western Christians have long read the Passion narrative from John’s Gospel at Good Friday worship, a tradition that ...

Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. Hear the full version of this interview on the Century podcast In Search Of. Your path into biblical studies is a ...

But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men ...

Some Jewish works written several hundred years before John's gospel portrayed Wisdom as God's heavenly consort. This Wisdom, pictured as a beautiful woman, lived with God and participated in ...

The gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The text of John gives us evidence of some of the historical events in the life of Jesus and his followers and his family. There are also remembrances of ...