![]() ![]() ![]() Jodrey approaches texts in the Gospel of John from their socio-cultural location as a queer person. While Christian interpreters find echoes of text within the Old Testament, they oftentimes ignore the apocryphal works that were also influential at the time of the writing of the Gospels. Specifically, echoes can be shouts, whispers, phrases, or songs that demonstrate intertextuality between New Testament texts and texts that would have been in the cultural milieu of the writers of the New Testament. Many Protestant Christians do not read Wisdom, but I would argue that engaging with the Gospel of John and its relationship to Wisdom invites readers to read John’s Gospel not only with the echoes found between the Wisdom of Solomon and the Gospel of John but also with the invitation to “queer” our standard interpretations of John’s Gospel.įirst, regarding echoes, scholar Richard Hays has been instrumental in providing a framework for thinking through echoes of scripture both in the Gospels and in Pauline literature. What is interesting about how Jesus begins is the connection to the apocryphal work the Wisdom of Solomon. ![]() ![]() This week’s pericope begins and ends with love. ![]()
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