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Today is the final part of this seven part series of an narrative analysis of this passage in the Gospel of John in which I present my final brief conclusion. I hope that this series has been of value to you. Please let me know what you thought of it, good or bad! Here are […]

Here’s a two part lesson on translating the original Hebrew of Genesis 1:1, written with the beginner in mind. Let me know what you think!
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We are coming near to the end of our narrative analysis of this passage from the Gospel of John. Today we will look at the plot of the narrative. If you need to catch up, here are the links to previous articles.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony […]

Yesterday we looked at the setting of his passage. Today we will examine its character: Jesus, Pilate, the Jews, and other supporting characters.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony | Part Four - Setting
Character
Jesus
Despite the fact that Pilate is the only character to appear consistently throughout the narrative, […]

Continuing our analysis of the narrative. today we will look at the setting. If you need to catch up, here are links to the first three parts of the analysis.
Part One - Introduction | Part Two - Rhetoric | Part Three - Irony
Setting
The architectural setting of this particular pericope plays a role in how it […]

Continuing our narrative analysis of this passage in the Gospel of John, today we will look at the irony involved in it. Irony in the Gospel of John is the largest of all the rhetoric. Here are links to the previous parts if you need to catch up.
Part 1 - Introduction | Part 2 - […]

Yesterday we began our look at this narrative in the Gospel of John with part one of our analysis. We looked briefly at the structure and any textual issues of importance in this section. Today we begin our focus on the rhetorical elements of the narrative: namely, theme, repetition, motif, type scenes, figures of speech, figures of […]

Last semester I took a class on the Gospel of John. For the final paper of that class I did a brief narrative analysis of the trial of Jesus by Pilate. This begins a series of posts on that analysis. First I will give a short introduction on what the paper (series of posts) is about, […]

The New Covenant
            The new covenant is spoken of by the Old Testament prophets. Most notably, Jeremiah speaks of a new covenant in Jer. 31:31-34 that God will make with his people. Robertson points out that while Jeremiah alone explicitly mentions the new covenant, “the concept of the new covenant cannot be restricted to this […]

The Davidic Covenant
            This was a covenant made by God with David in which God promised to make a house for David and establish his kingdom forever (2 Samuel 7). Similar to the Abrahamic covenant, all three systems see it as an unconditional promise. Yet a covenant that has points of conditionality as well, although […]

The Mosaic covenant
The Mosaic covenant is that which God made with the nation of Israel at Sinai, and for that reason it is sometimes referred to as the Sinaitic covenant. The details are laid out in Exodus 20 – 31. All systems agree […]