Tag: John the Baptist
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WHO WAS JOHN THE EVANGELIST?
I read nice little article on the Gospel of John this morning on the website of Biblical Archaeology Review (my favorite magazine, but I missed a month because of the move–drats!) that roots around at Johannine authorship. John never self-identifies, but maintains literary distance by describing himself as the “disciple whom Jesus loved” or the…
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4TH WEEK OF ADVENT: LUKE 1:1-80
Merry Christmas everyone! Tonight is Christmas Eve, and in order to finish all my Advent translating I worked through thirty verses yesterday and then another thirty today. I really feel like I’m inside Luke’s head. The reading for this week moved away from Matthew and into familiar Christmasy passages from Luke 1. Tomorrow I will…
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ADVENT WEEK 4 TRANSLATION
I apologize for the tardiness of this blog. It was supposed to be posted last week, but, alas, many things emerged which prevented that. I will be running silently for the next week or so but I wanted to get these wonderful Advent passages, especially the Magnificat, posted first. John 5:30-37 I am not able…
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ADVENT WEEK 3 TRANSLATION
The third week of Advent focuses very heavily upon the repentance and baptism message of John the Baptist. It was very exciting to translate Matthew, Mark, and Luke all telling the same thing but with slightly different tellings. There are so many hermeneutical things which could be addressed in these passages–from the conclusion of the…