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…
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This dissertation reexamines Matthew's use of Hosea 11:1 (2:15). Chapter 1 offers a summary and critique of important works on the subject and introduces those questions that are common to the debate surrounding this passage. Chapter 2 is entirely devoted to the hermeneutical de…
The Fourth Gospel asserts that Jesus is king and Messiah and underscores the royal status of Jesus especially in the passion narrative. There is a recent tendency in Johannine scholarship to divorce Jesus' kingship from his messiahship, on account of the dearth of explicit David…
The Problem. The problem this dissertation seeks to address is the origins of the wedding banquet imagery in the teaching of Jesus. Frequently, scholars will state that the image of a wedding banquet was a common messianic image in the first century. However, other than Isa 25:6…
Jews of the Second Temple Period make manifold, clear references to the binary system of messianic expectation, yet by the Rabbinic period both emerging Christianity and contemporary Judaism were focused only upon one of these expected messiahs. While Christians were engaged in …