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See Charlesworth’s introduction to Paul and the Dead Sea Scrolls, pp. ix–xvi.

See Jerome Murphy-O’Connor and James H. Charlesworth, eds., Paul and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Christian Origins Library; New York: Crossroad, 1992), and the pertinent chapters.

J. L. Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel, rev. ed. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1979); R. E. Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple (New York: Paulist, 1979).

D. Moody Smith, Johannine Christianity (Columbia, S.C.: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1984), p. 26.

Some of the Hermetic tractates and some of the gnostic codices are intermittently similar to John; but then the influence seems to be from John to them.

Raymond Brown, The Gospel According to John (Anchor Bible Series; Garden City, NY.: Doubleday, 1966) vol. 1, p. lxii.

For a discussion of this point, see the introduction in J. Charlesworth, ed., John and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Christian Origins Library; New York: Crossroad, 1991), and also see chapter five.

I use liminality in the sense defined by Victor Turner in Process, Performance, and Pilgrimage (New Delhi: Concept, 1979) esp. pp. 11–59. Also see Jonathan Z. Smith, “Birth Upside Down or Right Side Up?” History of Religions 9 (1969–1970), pp. 281–303, and his “A Place on Which to Stand: Symbols and Social Change,” Worship 44 (1970), pp. 457–474.