The Myth of the Seven "I am" Discourses

Today we examine another "false fact"--the claim that there are seven, or even about seven, discourses in John that combine the properties of being about an "I am" saying and being fairly lengthy. Sometimes scholars will add the (also false) claim that each of the "I am" sayings with a predicate is combined with both a miracle and a discourse. Of course, nothing would follow either deductively or non-deductively even if this were true, to call into question the fully recognizable historicity of such sermons and sayings. But the premise isn't even true. As I stress in the video, people can pass on these claims while not intending to use them against historicity, but it can also be used as if it puts a question mark on historicity for those passages.  

Here is my post with many quotations from Craig Evans in 2012:  http://lydiaswebpage.blogspot.com/2020/05/transcript-craig-a.html 

Here was my debate on the historicity of John in 2018 with Evans on Unbelievable:  https://www.premierunbelievable.com/unbelievable/unbelievable-is-johns-gospel-historically-accurate-lydia-mcgrew-and-craig-evans-debate/11554.article 

Here is the video of Evans's two debates with Bart Ehrman in 2012 from which the above transcript of quotes was taken:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueRIdrlZsvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCVnlHoFow