Signs in the Wilderness: Intertextuality and the Testing of Nicodemus


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About The Book

Signs in the Wilderness portrays Nicodemus as a traveler on a faith journeythrough the wilderness who is tested by Jesuss signs. Signs test Nicodemuss faith in the same way they tested that of the wilderness generations of ancient Israel in the book of Numbers. The first generation saw the miraculous signs of God yet refused to believe and so forfeited its right to enter the promised land. The second generation in contrast saw the signs believed and boldly entered the promised land. So it was in Johns Gospel as well in which many people see Jesus miraculous signs but refuse to believe thus forfeiting eternal life. Others believe and inherit eternal life. Nicodemus is a test case in that his own wilderness experience is one of divine testing in the face of Jesus signs. Will he have a heart of flesh believe and enter eternal life or a hard heart of stone refuse to believe and die in the wilderness? Similarly Jesus signs test the readers of Johns gospel resulting in either belief or unbelief. Daniel H. Fletcher earned his PhD in Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation from Westminster Theological Seminary. He is Associate Professor of the New Testament in the Turner School of Theology Amridge University.
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