Full title
“Protect Them from the Evil One” (John 17:15): Light from the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Research notes
Reader Checked|18/06/2012 SE
Reference type
Editor(s)
Coloe, Mary L.
Thatcher, Tom
Year
2011
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
John, Qumran, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years of Discovery and Debate
Issue / Series Volume
32
Series Title
SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature
Publisher
Brill
Place of Publication
Leiden
Pages
139-160
Reprint edition
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. “The Need for Protection from the Evil One and John's Gospel.” In The Myth of Rebellious Angels: Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts. Pages 187-215. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 1 335. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.
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01/08/2011
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Abstract
Loren Stuckenbruck within the scrolls considers ancient Jewish prayers for protection from demonic powers. His essay examines not just the Late Second Temple texts themselves but also the brand of piety that lay behind them, a piety that sought divine protection from personified forms of evil. Prayers of this type shed light on Jesus’ final prayer in John 17, in which he notably asks the Father to keep his disciples “from the evil one” (17:15).
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
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