Kim Haines-Eitzen, "The Gospel of John: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Podcast: New Books in Biblical Studies · Marshall Poe

Opublikowano: 2026-05-06

The contentious life and times of the most widely cited book of the New Testament. Written some two thousand years ago, the Gospel of John is the only Christian Gospel to place Jesus at the creation of the world, and the only one where we find the stories of the raising of Lazarus, the woman taken in adultery, and the changing of water into wine at the wedding in Cana. The Gospel of John also points an accusing finger at Jesus’s Jewish opponents and has been used by medieval crusaders, Protestant reformers, and white supremacists to legitimize antisemitic viol...