Did Jesus Love another Man? @JenniferBirdPhD​

Please Consider joining my Patreon to help finding scholars to bring on. Any amount helps me. Thank you existing Patrons. Subscribe to Jennifer Bird, Ph.D: Support Professor Bird: Dr. Bird Website: The book: Moses Course: Dr. Bart D. Ehrman ⬆⬆⬆LINK FOR COURSE ⬆⬆⬆ 💥💥💥💥🚨💥🚨💥🚨💥💥💥 (Click either one) ⬇⬇⬇LINK FOR COURSE ⬇⬇⬇ Mystery Cults Course: Dr. M David Litwa The Course for Mystery Cults by Professor Litwa is NOW AVAILABLE!!! Click the Link for more Details! (Link) Jennifer G Bird, PhD An East Coaster by upbringing, undergrad, and graduate schools, Dr. Bird has taught in New Jersey, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia. On the side, she carves out time for speaking and writing on marriage in the Bible. Her background within the United Methodist Church, education in a Presbyterian affiliated institution, time spent in several ministerial contexts, six years of graduate work in biblical studies, and more than 20 years of teaching in classrooms of all kinds all inform her approach to having quite honest, and sometimes difficult, conversations about what is actually to be found in the scriptures of the Christian Bible. No question, her favorite conversations include gender, sexuality, and marriage: what the Bible does and does not say about them! Education BS Mathematics, Education Minor Virginia Tech . 1994 Master of Divinity Princeton Theological Seminary . 2001 ​PhD, New Testament & Early Christianity Vanderbilt University . 2007 Homosexuality has been at the forefront of debate in the church for the last quarter century, with biblical interpretation at its heart. In the Man Jesus Loved, Jennings proposes a gay affirmative reading of the Bible in the hope of respecting the integrity of these texts and making them more clear as well as more persuasive. This reading suggests that the exclusion of persons on the basis of their sexual orientation or same-sex practices fundamentally distorts the Bible generally and the traditions concerning Jesus in particular. he phrase “the disciple whom Jesus loved“ is used six times in the Gospel of John,[1] but in no other New Testament accounts of Jesus. John 21:24 states that the Gospel of John is based on the written testimony of this disciple. Since the end of the first century, the Beloved Disciple has been commonly identified with John the Evangelist. Scholars have debated the authorship of Johannine literature (the Gospel of John, Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation) since at least the third century, but especially since the Enlightenment. The authorship by John the Apostle is rejected by many modern scholars, but not entirely. There is a consensus among Johannine scholars that the Beloved Disciple was a real historical person, but there is no consensus on who the beloved disciple was. The disciple whom Jesus loved is referred to, specifically, six times in the Gospel of John: It is this disciple who, while reclining beside Jesus at the Last Supper, asks Jesus who it is that will betray him, after being requested by Peter to do so. Later at the crucifixion, Jesus tells his mother, “Woman, here is your son“, and to the Beloved Disciple he says, “Here is your mother.“ When Mary Magdalene discovers the empty tomb, she runs to tell the Beloved Disciple and Peter. The two men rush to the empty tomb and the Beloved Disciple is the first to reach it. However, Peter is the first to enter. In John 21, the last chapter of the Gospel of John, the Beloved Disciple is one of seven fishermen involved in the miraculous catch of 153 fish. Also in the book’s final chapter, after Jesus implies the manner in which Peter will die, Peter sees the Beloved Disciple following them and asks, “What about him?“ Jesus answers, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.“ Again in the Gospel’s last chapter, it states that the very book itself is based on the written testimony of the disciple whom Jesus loved. The other Gospels do not mention anyone in parallel circumstances who could be directly linked to the Beloved Disciple. For example, in Luke 24:12, Peter runs to the tomb. Matthew, Mark, and Luke do not mention any one of the 12 disciples having witnessed the crucifixion. Also, the New Testament makes two references to an unnamed “other disciple“ in John 1:35-40 and John 18:15-16,[17] which may be to the same person based on the wording in John 20:2. #gnosticinformant #jenniferbird #beloveddisciple