In lieu of the devotional on John for this week, I thought I would share the second part of a paper I wrote for a doctoral seminar, adapted for Substack. If you missed the first part, you can find it here.👇

https://open.substack.com/pub/ploughmanpost/p/the-targumic-word-part-1

Here are sources on the three non-Targumic understanding of the Word in the order discussed in the episode:

1. Franklin W Young, “Study of the Relation of Isaiah to the Fourth Gospel,” Zeitschrift Für Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Die Kunde Der Älteren Kirche 46, 3–4 (1955): 228; D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John, Pillar New Testament Commentary (Inter-Varsity Press, 1991), 96.

2. Thomas H Tobin, “The Prologue of John and Hellenistic Jewish Speculation,” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 52, 2 (April 1990): 252–69.

3. C. H. Dodd, The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel (Cambridge, 1953), 276–79.

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