The Pre-70 ce Dating of the Gospel of John: ‘There is (éstin) in Jerusalem … a pool … which has five porticoes’ (5.2)
The Pre-70 ce Dating of the Gospel of John ‘There is (ἔστιν) in Jerusalem … a pool … which has five porticoes’ (5.2)
This article argues that the statement in John 5.2, ‘There is (ἔστιν) in Jerusalem […] a pool […] which has five porticoes’, offers internal evidence for dating the Gospel prior to 70 ce, when Jerusalem was destroyed. Scholars usually discard the use of the present tense ‘is’ as a mere instance of t...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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New Testament studies
Año: 2025, Volumen: 71, Número: 1, Páginas: 29-55 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Bibel. Johannesevangelium
/ Datación
/ Betsaida
/ Jerusalén
/ Destrucción
/ Römisches Reich
/ Literatura
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | HC Nuevo Testamento HH Arqueología |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Bezetha area
B destruction of Jerusalem in Greco-Roman literature B Gospel of John B historic present tense (Greek grammar) B Jerusalén B pre-70 ce dating B Pool of Bethzatha (Bethesda) |
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