The Gospel of John

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The paper discusses how the recent film adaptation of the fourth gospel, "The Gospel of John" (2003), represents a fascinating cinematic document for study, in that its word for word translation of the gospel text into a visual medium allows us insights into the Biblical text and its relationship to our modern culture. As this review argues with reference to both the film and its Biblical source text, the textual fidelity of "The Gospel of John" compels us to a realization of the oral and written qualities of the gospel which do not lend themselves to dramatic visual presentation.

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"E. Randolph Richards, in "Paul and First-Century Letter Writing," studies the letters of Paul - one of the most important figures in early Christianity - within the context of letter writing in classical antiquity in general. As this review will demonstrate, Richards' study challenges a number of our modern misconceptions regarding the nature of authority and authorship during Paul's era and his focus upon the mechanics of Paul's letter writing as opposed to the content of his letters themselves illuminates many otherwise obscured complexities of the Christian mission in the Roman world of the first century."

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