John 17 commentary

I've placed the first three chapters in Dropbox, which makes them easier to download.

John 17-1

John 17-2

John 17-3

Commentary on John 17.3

Can be found at:

Web page source

or

Scribd source

Some Responses to the New Atheists

Berlinski, D. The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions (2009)

Eagleton, T. Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
Flew, A. There is No A God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind (2008)

Hart, D. Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies  (2010)
Hedges, C. When Atheism Becomes Religion
Haught, J. God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens
McGrath, A. The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (2010)

Two new books on the Temple in the NT

N Perrin, Jesus the Temple (Baker, 2010)
T. Gray, Temple in the Gospel of Mark (Baker, 2010)

Commentary on John 17:2

Here's the commentary on 17:2

John 17:2 commentary, site 1

or

John 17:2 pdf, site 2

Commentary on John 17

I’m starting a detailed study of Christ’s intercessory prayer in John 17.  I’ll be occasionally posting my commentary on the topic.  Here is my commentary on John 17:1.
A pdf file can be downloaded from:
John 17:1 commentary (site 1)
or
John 17:1 commentary (site 2)

New Book notice

A very nice new book on one of the most important temple complexes in ancient Egypt traces the importance of the site through over 3000 years.

David O'Connor, Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris (Thames and Hudson, 2009).

Temple and Cross

Here is a preliminary draft of an paper on the temple origins of cross symbolism that I'm working on as part of a larger project.
PDFs can be found at two sites:

Temple and Cross 

Temple and Cross site 2

Boethius on celestial ascent and deification

Boethius' {480-524} famous Consolation of Philosophy includes several passages describing the ascent of the soul to God, resulting in its deification.  These can be found in 3.9 (poem), 4.1 (poem).  He discusses deification in  3.10.22-25 and 4.3.  His perspective is that of a Neoplatonic Christian.

New Book Notice

Mark Glickman, Sacred Treasure, the Cairo Genizah (2010)
On the story of the creation, discovery, and publication of the great medieval Jewish archive from the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo from the 11th century.