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Commentary about solid or whole body part transplantation, transfusion and donation is well documented and has added to discourse about who gives and receives and how. Commentary about another body part – blood – is, it is argued here, less well developed (Sanner, 2001; Lock, 20…

In 1479, the Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini, traveled to Istanbul to serve as a court portraitist of Sultan Mehmed II. Gentile Bellini evidently brought with him a volume of drawings, which he gave to the sultan as a gift. The book contained scores of drawings made by Gentile…

A gradual uncovering of the OT covenant metaphor as background to the Johannine writings can be seen in scholarship on the Gospel according to John in recent decades. To this point, however, there has been no systematic study of the Fourth Gospel as a narrative whole with partic…