John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of by Mary L. Coloe, Tom Thatcher

By Mary L. Coloe, Tom Thatcher

The lifeless Sea Scrolls exhibit a Palestinian kind of moment Temple Judaism during which the seeds of Johannine Christianity could have first sprouted. even supposing many texts from the Judean wilderness are actually generally to be had, the Scrolls have had little half in discussions of the Johannine literature during the last a number of many years. The essays during this ebook, starting from targeted reviews of key passages within the Fourth Gospel to its broader social international, reflect on the previous and strength effect of the Scrolls on Johannine reviews within the context of a turning out to be curiosity within the historic roots of the Johannine culture and the origins and nature of the Johannine neighborhood and its courting to mainstream Judaism. destiny scholarship should be drawn to connections among the Gospel of John and the Scrolls and in addition in Qumran Judaism and Johannine Christianity as parallel spiritual events. The members are Mary L. Coloe and Tom Thatcher, Eileen Schuller, Paul N. Anderson, John Ashton, George J. Brooke, Brian J. Capper, Hannah ok. Harrington, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, and James H. Charlesworth

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In his Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament: Essays in Mutual Illumination (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005), 3–18. ” Jörg Frey, “The Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls on New Testament Interpretation: Proposals, Problems, and Further Perspectives,” in The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Princeton Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. James H. Charlesworth, 3 vols. : Baylor University Press, 2006), 3:407–61. Frey’s periods largely overlap with those of Brooke, but the dates and descriptions are more clearly spelled out.

In The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years after Their Discovery, ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, and James C. VanderKam (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and the Shrine of the Book, 2000), 116–38. ” 8. lxii–lxiv.  Rudolf Schnackenburg, The Gospel according to St. John, trans. Kevin Smyth, 3 vols. 128–35.  Barnabas Lindars, The Gospel of John (NCBC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972), 36–38. More recently, Craig Keener’s commentary, with its extensive engagement with ancient sources, provides one of the most helpful treatments of John’s Jewish background, although its focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls is more incidental than pronounced (The Gospel of John: A Commentary, 2 vols.

John, trans. Kevin Smyth, 3 vols. 128–35.  Barnabas Lindars, The Gospel of John (NCBC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972), 36–38. More recently, Craig Keener’s commentary, with its extensive engagement with ancient sources, provides one of the most helpful treatments of John’s Jewish background, although its focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls is more incidental than pronounced (The Gospel of John: A Commentary, 2 vols. 171–232). anderson: john & qumran: discovery & interpretation 19 outset that the following lists make no attempt to be exhaustive in their treatment.

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