King John has been perceived as one of England's most notorious monarchs. Medieval writers and later historians condemn him as a tyrant, seeing his long-running dispute with the church as evidence of a king who showed little regard for his faith. This book takes issue with ortho…
The English scholar John of Salisbury was a major intellectual of the twelfth century whose contributions to the fields of education, grammar, political theory, and rhetoric are well-known. His significance is amplified further in this book, in which John D. Hosler examines his …
The focus of this study is the Christology of Theodore, the bishop of Mopsuestia (ca. 352-428), as is expressed in the Greek fragments of his Commentary on John. (In addition, I provide as an appendix an English translation of critical edition of "Les Fragments grecs du commaint…
A story of Jesus' suffering and death exists in three independent but similar forms: the passion narratives in the canonical gospels of Mark and John and that in the apocryphal Gospel of Peter. This situation has never been adequately explained by form criticism. This dissertati…
This dissertation identifies how a first-century reader may have interpreted the characterization of the women in the Fourth Gospel and includes a feminist critique. The hypothesis is that the women's primary literary function is to support the characterization of Jesus as the m…
Commentaries recognized that two pericopae in the Gospel of John, viz. John 1:43-51 and 4:1-42, allude to stories about the Hebrew patriarch Jacob. This dissertation probes the theme of Jacob in these two pericopae and compares it with the theme as it occurs in the Jewish Bible …
The following project analyses the construction of the genre paradigm for a category of texts called apocalypses. By dismantling and reassembling the working paradigm, certain logical problems are disclosed: namely, the problems of the hierarchization of structural elements, and…
Recent New Testament scholarship has shown little interest in the Fourth Gospel's concept of "knowing God," despite the recurrence and significance of this phrase in the gospel. This study demonstrates that the fourth evangelist is dealing with a relational concept of knowledge.…
Biblical narrative learning is a non-critical educational approach for Christian communities with diverse learning backgrounds. It is grounded in humankind's universal capacity to teach and learn through stories and built on practices in narrative learning, along with biblical n…
The purpose of the dissertation was to examine conflict in the Fourth Gospel as it related to the understanding of Messiah. Chapter 1 was a study of the different types of conflicts found in the Fourth Gospel, especially as they related to Jesus. He had conflict with evil, natur…
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…
