Craig Blomberg has spent the span of his career studying the historical reliability of the New Testament. His first published book was his dissertation on the historical reliability of the Gospels. Since then he has written several other works on the same topic, covering John and other focused questions about the New Testament….
As the title suggests, Jonathan Bernier’s McMaster University PhD thesis, Aposynagōgos and the Historical Jesus in John, is a reconsideration of the Johannine expulsion passages found in John 9:22, 12:42, and 16:2. Bernier’s central thesis is both exegetical and hermeneutical. With respect to the former, Bernier argues….
You should buy this book and read it. I don’t suggest that because I agree with the basic premise of each chapter, but because I disagree with it. This book takes various historical-critical conclusions and determines whether they can be squared with Evangelical (or even orthodox) dogma. The tension between Evangelicalism and historical criticism tension is perhaps felt more in Old Testament studies, with dating conclusions in constant flux….