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305: Gary Burge — Interpreting the Gospel of John

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Is There Really a Need for These to Be Both or or Both?

There is still an early church construction reconstruction element there is Hellenistic influence and simultaneously a Jewish intentionality behind it. In the most exclusive hangout in Israel, Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls came from, they are actually using images, vocabulary that come out of the Greek world. We have to be able to talk about people who are bicultural. I think Paul, for instance, is bicultural. When he's home, his mom calls him Saul,. When he's in Ephesus, they all call Paul. So when it comes to the Gospel of John, there was a day when scholarships said this is an entirely Greek gospel. But Johanin studies has evolved

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