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We now come to one of the most popular members of the contemporary informal Bible studies establishment: Bart Ehrman. I am going to select one of his more accessible efforts, […]

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Maronite Meditation 76 We have been critiquing the arguments of the late John Ashton in the second edition of his Understanding the Fourth Gospel, so far as they relate to […]

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Maronite Meditation 75 We shall now consider a question which most people may not realise is contentious: the assertion that the Gospel of St John was the product of a […]

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Today we shall continue with our examination of how the late George Beasley-Murray handled the authorship of the Gospel of St John. Last week we saw what he made of […]

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Maronite Meditation 73 Today we shall begin to examine the evidence around the authorship of the Gospel of St John. It is a huge topic, but we shall take one […]

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We are continuing with our theme of examining the assertions of academics working in Biblical Studies, and asking the basic question: how do we discern what is reliable in their […]

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The tradition of the Church has, for some time and in many places, been to celebrate the Sunday immediately after Easter Sunday as “Thomas Sunday,” on which the Sunday’s Gospel […]

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Maronite Meditation 71 Reading the Bible Welcome to the first of our Maronite meditations on reading Scripture. We are going to commence by clearing the ground. We will look at […]

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In chapter 2, Goodacre shows how, contrary to what is usually said, passages from St John’s Gospel can be set alongside parallel passages from the Synoptics, such as the sundering […]

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Goodacre, Mark (2025) The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John’s Knowledge of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids This stimulating book has arrived just as I have been working […]

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