'the Fourth Gospel'
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'the Fourth Gospel'
Parker https://www.jstor.org/stable/3264824?read-now=1&seq=1 makes the claim that 'the Fourth Gospel' was the more common way of referencing John's gospel than the 'Gospel of John.' What is the evidence for this?
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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Re: 'the Fourth Gospel'
I think Parker is referring to NT professors a generation or two before 1962. Evidence: book titles from that era.
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Re: 'the Fourth Gospel'
Since the beginning of the modern era, where Hegel and the Tübingen school have strong influence, John more than the Synoptics was disregarded as pure mythology. So calling it the "Fourth Gospel" is just a snide way to dismiss it as such.
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Re: 'the Fourth Gospel'
Yes thank you. That makes more sense.I think Parker is referring to NT professors a generation or two before 1962
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote