In the Beginning was the Word?
The creation story of Genesis 1 is reinterpreted in the prologue to the Gospel of John.
In this episode, we will be looking at what John is doing with the text of Genesis 1 here, and how he plays on ideas from Greek philosophy in reinterpreting creation.
Resources
Heraclitus:
- A great podcast series with an episode on Heraclitus is The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps
- Texts can be found here
Philo:
- Charles Duke Yonge’s translation of the Works of Philo is online here.
- Carl Séan O’brien writes about Philo in Chapter 3 of The Demiurge in Ancient Thought: Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Also a good read is Per Jarle Bekken’s Philo's Relevance for the Study of the New Testament Reading Philo: A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria, 2014,
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