Jesus is seen as the dynamic ‘only coming into being God’, the angelic figure bearing the Name of God who appears between the halves of the sacrifice to Abraham, who appears to Moses on Sinai and mediates the Torah to him, who appears in a vision to Isaiah ‘high and lifted up and his train filled the temple’. If God is unknowable and unseeable, how did Abraham receive the Covenant how did Moses receive the Torah and how did the prophets receive God’s word? In the course of the Gospel, John indicates in turn that Abraham (8:55–8:58), Moses (5:45–5:46), and Isaiah (12:41) all saw Jesus and wrote about him/wrote his words. The central issue is the issue of mediation of the knowledge and presence of the unknowable, unseeable God.
The Torah was given through Moses, grace and truth through Jesus Christ (1:17). In an article given in Brussels a few years ago (Draper 2007), I argued that the relationship between Moses and Jesus is a central consideration for John’s Gospel.
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