24. For the nonhistorical character of John, see Jesus: A New Vision, 4–6.
25. The same theme appears in the longer ending to Mark’s Gospel, added some time in the second century, which almost certainly does not report actual words of Jesus, but does report what some early Christians believed he had said to his followers: “They will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them” (Mark 16:18; in the judgment of most scholars, Mark’s Gospel originally ended with 16:8). This verse is taken literally by a few Christians and is the scriptural basis for handling poisonous snakes in the context of Christian worship.
26. From the Jerusalem Talmud, Ber. 9a. Also reported in the Babylonian Talmud, Ber. 33a, and the Tosefta, Ber. 2.20.
27. For an excellent discussion of the relationship between faith and historical judgment, see Van Harvey, The Historian and the Believer (New York: Macmillan, 1966).
28. Fuller, Interpreting the Miracles, 38.
CHAPTER 10: Renewing Our Image of Jesus
1. Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978).
2. Gerd Theissen, Sociology of Early Palestinian Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978).
3. See Huston Smith’s Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), in which he sketches the multidimensional model of reality and the self that he finds to be virtually a cultural universal, attested to by the collective experience of humankind prior to the modern period.
CHAPTER 13: Facing Today’s Challenges
1. Putting Away Childish Things (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2010).
CHAPTER 16: Listening for the Voice of God
1. Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992).
SCRIPTURE INDEX
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OLD TESTAMENT
Genesis, 5, 6–7, 20, 22, 185
3:19, 134
12:7–9, 249n14
15:1–17, 249n14
17:1–2, 249n14
18:1–33, 249n14
26:23–25, 249n14
28:17, 7
32:22–31, 249n14
Exodus, 7
3:13–14, 34
4:22–23, 256n40
32:7–14, 7
34:29–35, 7
Leviticus
19:2, 146
Numbers
14:13–19, 7
15:37–41, 251n4
Deuteronomy, 6
6:4–5, 47
6:4–9, 251n4
11:2–21, 251n4
2 Samuel
7:14, 256n40
1 Kings
8:27, 39, 248n12
17–19, 21, 249n16
18:12, 253n14
19:12, 228
19:19–21, 256n35
2 Kings
1–2, 249n16
1:8, 252n8
2:11–12, 16, 253n14
Job, 34
38–41, 34
42:5, 34
Psalms
2:7, 256n40
24:1, 175
38:8, 11, 105
51:10, 79–80
89:9, 105
95:5, 105
107:25–29, 106
139:7–10, 38–39, 248n12
Song of Solomon/Songs, 154–55
Isaiah
2:2–4, 137
4:21, 55
6:1–4, 8
6:3, 33, 248n12
6:6–7, 8–9
43:4–5, 154
56:7, 171
58:6, 55
61:1, 9, 48
61:1–2, 55
64:1, 253n12
Jeremiah
7:11, 171
31:33–34, 80
Ezekiel, 143
1:1, 9, 48
8:3, 253n14
11:1–2, 253n14
11:5, 9
Hosea
11:1, 256n40
Micah
4:3, 167
4:4, 167
Zechariah
9:9, 70
13:4, 252n8
NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew, 61
1–2, 251n1
3:7–10, 48
3:14, 252n10
3:17, 253n11
4:1–11, 50–51
4:8, 51
4:24–25, 94
5:21–22, 76, 256n33
5:27–28, 76, 256n33
5:29–30, 68
5:31–34, 256n33
5:38–39, 256n33
5:43–44, 256n33
5:45, 69
5:48, 135
6:19–21, 78
6:24, 79
6:26–30, 68
6:33, 169–70
6:50, 107
7:14, 85
7:16–20, 77–78
8:5–13, 101
8:13, 102
8:21–22, 256n35
8:25, 107
10:1–8, 262n4
10:5–8, 110
10:37–38, 260n25
10:39, 83
11:3, 94, 252n10
11:9, 252n8
11:27, 67
11:28–30, 85
12:22–37, 263n14
12:27, 262n4
12:28, 57, 100, 255n31
12:33–35, 77–78
13:55, 251n2
14:13–21, 91
14:22–33, 119
16:24, 231
17:1–8, 256n37
18:1–4, 260n28
18:2–4, 82
18:4, 82
20:16, 83
20:25–27, 56
21:11, 56
23:11, 82
23:12, 82, 260n28
Mark, 106–7
1:4–6, 48
1:6, 252n8
1:10, 48
1:11, 49, 227
1:13, 50
1:15, 72–73, 255n25
1:16–20, 58–59
1:22, 56
1:23–27, 98
1:29–31, 101
1:32–33, 94
1:33, 56
1:34, 264n18
1:35, 53
1:40–42, 102
1:40–45, 101
1:45, 94
2:1–12, 101
2:4, 56
2:13–14, 256n34
3:1–6, 101
3:5, 102
3:9–10, 264n18
3:21, 56
3:22, 56, 100
3:22–30, 263n14
3:27, 100
4:14, 103
4:35–41, 104, 117
5:2–5, 9, 97, 262–63n7
5:7, 98
5:8, 77
5:21–24, 104
5:24, 56–57
5:24–34, 101
5:30, 57
5:35–43, 104
5:39, 107
6:3, 251n2
6:4, 59
6:7–13, 110, 262n4
6:14–15, 94–95
6:14–16, 56
6:30–44, 71, 104
6:32–44, 91
6:45–52, 104, 117
6:46, 53
7:6, 81
7:15, 76
7:18–23, 76
7:32–35, 102
7:37, 101
8–10, 261n32
8:1–10, 104
8:22–26, 101, 264n20
8:27–10:52, 133
8:28, 56
8:34, 81
8:35, 83
9:2–4, 59–60
9:7, 228
9:17–27, 98
9:18, 262n4
9:33–35, 82
9:38–39, 262n4
10:15, 82
10:28, 59
10:31, 83
10:32, 56
10:42–44, 82
10:46–52, 101
11:4–5, 101
11:12–14, 20–25, 104, 264n21
; 11:29–30, 57
11:32, 252n8
12:17, 71
13:24–27, 145
14:36, 54, 67
14:62, 103
15:38, 261n32
16:18, 265–66n25
Luke, 61
1–2, 251n1
1:79, 258n13
2:14, 258n13
3:7–9, 48
3:21, 254n22
3:22, 253n11
3:23, 251n6
4:1–13, 50–51
4:5, 51
4:18, 144
4:18–19, 54–55
4:18–30, 255n25
5:1–11, 104, 264n21
5:16, 254n22
6:12, 53, 254n22
6:18, 96
6:36, 69, 135, 146
6:43–45, 77–78
7:1–10, 101
7:11–17, 104
7:19, 94, 252n10
7:22, 101
7:26, 252n8
8:2, 96
9:1–6, 262n4
9:10–17, 91
9:18, 254n22
9:23, 81
9:28–29, 254n22
9:28–36, 256n37
9:51–18:14, 84
10:8–9, 110
10:17, 262n4
10:17–18, 51
10:19, 108
10:22, 67
11:1, 254n22
11:2, 254n23, 257n8
11:14–23, 263n14
11:19, 262n4
11:20, 100, 255n31
12:6–7, 68
12:24–28, 68
12:33–34, 78
13, 137
13:6–9, 264n21
13:10–17, 101
13:24, 85
13:30, 83
13:32, 72
13:32–34, 137
13:33, 59
14:1–6, 101
14:7–11, 260n28
14:11, 82
14:26–27, 260n25
16:13, 79
17:11–19, 101
17:33, 83
18:9–14, 79
18:14, 82, 260n28
18:17, 82
19:42–44, 70
22:25–26, 82
22:51, 101
Q text, 67–69, 135, 252n10, 256n32, 258n9, 258n10
John, 45, 53, 113, 117
1, 252n10
3:1–8, 260n27
3:16, 155, 175
6:1–14, 92
6:14–15, 71
6:33, 35, 92
8:57, 251n6
11:1–44, 107
12:25, 83
14:1–8, 221–22
Acts, 48
1:8, 103
2:36, 172, 201, 213
4:14, 103
8:39–40, 253n14
9:1, 198
9:1–8, 250n23
17:27–28, 38
17:28, 248n12
22:6–11, 250n23
26:12–18, 250n23
28:1–6, 108
Romans
6:1–11, 261n31
8:15, 254n23, 257–58n8
1 Corinthians
12–14, 250n22
2 Corinthians
5:16, 140
12:2–4, 11
Galatians
2:19–20, 83, 199, 231
4:6, 254n23, 257–58n8
Philippians
2:5–11, 260–61n30
Colossians
1:15, 115
Hebrews
11, 21
Revelation
4:1, 7, 249n15
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