This dissertation examines the Fourth Gospel to determine if any liturgical material is present within the texts. The first chapter reviews previous scholarly interaction relevant to this topic. The second assesses various proposed criteria and creates an inventory for evaluatio…
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This dissertation seeks to bring balance to existing trends in Johannine scholarship that either appropriate a virtually exclusive Christocentric reading to the Fourth Gospel or focus on reconstructing the Gospel’s history and audiences. These two tendencies overlook important q…
This dissertation examines and catalogues the history of interpretation of the ambiguous speakers in John 3:16-21 and 3:31-36. The history of interpretation leads to the conclusion that the passages are best understood as spoken by Jesus, not the Evangelist. Chapter 1 introduces…
Wisdom is one of the philosophical terms that have been discussed by thinkers in diverse cultures from the past to the present. This thesis explores the theme of wisdom in the Gospel of John and ancient Chinese classics the Zhuangzi from the interpretations of the metaphor of li…
The Fourth Gospel presents the doctrine of love by repeating the terms for love, such as agape and philos , and their cognate verbs. The Gospel further enriches the doctrine by adopting metaphors and symbols that signify love, lovers, and/or love deities in the first-century Med…
This dissertation examines the relationship between the cultic languages in Hebrews 10:19–20 and the sanctuary imagery of the Synoptic Gospels (Matt 27:53/Mark 15:38/Luke 23:45). The work consists of six chapters. The first chapter provides a survey of the history of research re…
Many Early Christians used Jesus' ascension to reflect upon their own heavenly ascents. Scholars of Jesus' ascension have often neglected this link, over-emphasizing both the role of Luke---Acts in development of ascension belief and the connection with his resurrection. In the …
The story of the wedding at Cana in John 2:1-12 presents the reader with a curious response that Jesus (v. 4) makes to his mother's implied request (v. 3): ti emoi kai soi . There has been much discussion about the meaning of the idiom ti emoi kai soi and its Hebrew equivalent m…
This dissertation analyses the linguistic parallels between the Gospel of John and the sectarian Qumran document, the Rule, and investigates the degree of semantic continuity in their respective uses of truth terminology. The major premise is that the Rule provides linguistic cl…
While scholars uniformly recognise John 13–17 as a unique literary unit within the Fourth Gospel, these chapters contain various difficulties that distract from their cohesive integrity. Some argue that the problems result from an incomplete or careless editorial redaction, and …
This dissertation focuses on the Passion Narrative in the Gospel of John, with particular attention to the arrest scene (18:1-12), the Roman show trial (18:28-19:16), and the crucifixion and burial (19:16-40). It employs James C. Scott's model of hidden transcripts and gives car…
The present study explores the impact of Isaiah's vineyard story (Isa 5:1-7; 27:2-6) on the language, imagery, and theology of John 15:1-17. The study seeks to provide an exercise in biblical theology by way of a case study text, John 15:1-17. In so doing, the study seeks to con…
This study argues that attention to the Gospel of John with a focus on its economic context makes a significant contribution for its interpretation. Turning to John 2:13– 22 to prove this thesis, this dissertation uses literary and historical analytical methods to examine Jesus’…
Many interpreters of the Fourth Gospel, ancient and modern, detect allusions to biblical texts about marriage. Some hear echoes of well betrothal narratives in John 4:4–42. Some perceive similarities between John 3:29, John 12:1–8, or John 20:1–18 and the Song of Songs. Others r…
This dissertation attempts to answer two questions related to the significance of John 17 in the Fourth Gospel. First, does John 17 serve to summarize the themes of the Fourth Gospel as so many scholars suggest? Second, if so, is there any discernible pattern in the thematic rel…
The question of what John is saying about women through his narrative arises within the context of contemporary discussions about women's roles in our society because the subject of women per se was not a Johannine interest. Feminist biblical scholarship should therefore be less…
This dissertation explores the relationships between John 6 and Exodus. Although many interpreters have noted connections between these texts, the predominant reading has been to emphasize the way in which Jesus replaces or supersedes the former things. For example, most have id…
A long history of studies exists of how Hebrew and Aramaic influenced NT Greek. Many deal specifically with the Semitic background to the Fourth Gospel. These are flawed, however, by (1) a lack of precision in selection of Greek and Semitic sources used for comparative purposes,…
This dissertation analyzes character-portrayal in the Fourth Gospel within the context of Greek and Hebrew methods of character-depiction. Two previous studies serve as points of departure for this examination. One is R. Alan Culpepper's chapter on characterization in Anatomy of…