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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
New Testament studies
Year: 2025, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-55 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
John
/ Dating
/ Bethsaida
/ Jerusalem
/ Destruction
/ Roman Empire
/ Literature
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HH Archaeology |
| Further subjects: | B
Bezetha area
B destruction of Jerusalem in Greco-Roman literature B Gospel of John B Jerusalem B historic present tense (Greek grammar) B pre-70 ce dating B Pool of Bethzatha (Bethesda) |
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