My New Weekly column at Patheos

http://www.patheos.com/About-Patheos/William-Hamblin.html

I'll be exploring the Gospel of John for a few months.

New book notice

Dan Lioy, Axis of Glory: A Biblical and Theological Analysis of the Temple Motif in Scripture, (Peter Lang, 2010).

New commentary on John 17.9

An examination of the antithesis between Jesus and the World/kosmos.  Can be downloaded from:
Scribd
Download from Scribd
Web
Download from Web page
Dropbox
Download from Dropbox

Commentary on John 17.8

An exploration of John 17.8 focusing on what it means to accept Christ’s words, and the relationship between faith/trust and knowledge.  Available on these sites

Scribd
Scribd site

Web
Web page link

Dropbox
DropBox link

Commentary on John 17.7

Discussion on the meaning of "all things given" to Christ by the Father in John 17.7.
Available here:


Web Page
Web link


DropBox
DropBox link


Scribd
Scribd link

Commentary on John 17.6

On Web page
Web link

On Dropbox
DropBox link

On Scribd
Scribd link

New book notice

Interesting examination of the relationship between the Gospel of John and the Aramaic Targums:

J. Ronning, The Jewish Targums and John's Logos Theology (2010).

Commentary on Jn 17.5, Before the world

Can be downloaded from these sites.

Mobile Me
Mobile Me

Scribd
Scribd

Dropbox
Dropbox

New Book Notice

Christopher Rowl and Christopher R.A. Morray-Jones, The Mystery of God: Early Jewish Mysticism and the New Testament (Brill, 2009), ISBN 978-9004175327

This is a great book synthesizing the vast amount study in the past few decades on early Jewish mysticism, with fascinating information concerning celestial ascent and the temple.  However, being it's published by Brill, it has the ghastly price of $272.  Aaaaaaarrrrrgh!

It is volume 12 in the Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum.

Commentary on John 17.4, the Glory of the Lord

Three different sites for the same text.

John 17.4, site 1 (Dropbox)

John 17.4, site 2 (web page)

John 17.4, site 3 (Scribd)