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Some Thoughts on John

November 19th, 2008 | Category: Biblical Interpretation

I have been reading Richard Bauckham’s arguments for John’s Gospel to be historiography, if not the most historiographical of all four canonical Gospels, in his book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. One of the things he debunks is the idea that John was written by someone or a community that is not John the Elder mentioned in Papias (this is not to be confused with John the son of Zebedee seen in the Synpotics). I just want to recount some of his arguments found in chapters 14-17 of the book. Read more