Abstract Biblical interpreters have long wrestled with the vicious anti-Jewish rhetoric of John’s gospel including, mostly famously, when Jesus calls Jews “children devil” (8:44). Post-Shoah, is even more horrifying. This article seeks to highlight use John 8:44 and other from in children’s literature Nazi Germany. The books under consideration show a progression advocating for forced displacem...

During the 2nd–5th centuries, usual format of canonical gospel title is “The Gospel According to [person]”. While becoming well-established in this period, reused and transformed when naming apocryphal gospels. In order study meaning emerging titles, claims these titles will be analysed determine who each presents as gospel’s source (often a divine figure) implied that author human person). By ...