James R. Edwards is Bruner-Welch Professor Emeritus of Theology at Whitworth University, Spokane. A New Testament scholar with major commentaries on Mark and Luke, he writes widely on Christology and the historical Jesus.
If we could time-travel to first-century Galilee and look for Jesus, what would we find? Edwards uses the thought experiment to trace the leap from a small itinerant Jewish movement…
Part two of Edwards's two-part essay on the early church's startling decision to give Jesus the most sacred name for God. This installment takes up the precedent in YHWH's own…
The earliest Greek title for Jesus was 'Lord' (kyrios), the same word the Septuagint used for YHWH. Edwards asks how Jewish monotheists could have applied the divine name to a…
Edwards encountered Ernst Lohmeyer's name as a footnote in his doctoral research and was haunted by the cryptic note that a 'higher power' had carried him off to a 'still-unresolved…
Edwards continues his treatment of John 14:6 by looking at Jesus' own preferred self-designation: Son of Man. Why this odd title from Daniel 7, and what does it tell us…
John 14:6 is the most famous line in the Fourth Gospel and the only place there Jesus calls himself 'the way.' Edwards argues that 'way, truth, and life' aren't three…
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