Title: Charlesworth's "comprehensive" work fails to look at all pos
Product review: Charlesworth provides a detailed analysis of scholarship on the question of the identity of the mysterious "beloved disciple" in the gospel of John. After carefully anaysing each scholar's thesis, he lays a case for identifying Thomas as the beloved disciple. Unfortunatly, like most other scholars, he fails to consider the candidacy of Mary of Bethany, who fills the bill better than Thomas does. See Thomas W. Butler's LET HER KEEP IT: JESUS' ORDINATION OF MARY OF BETHANY, Quantum Leap Publisher (1998) for a careful study of Old and New Testament evidence to support the thesis that the beloved disciple of Jesus was a woman. Her identity was hidden because that fact was not acceptable to the established leaders in ancient Christian, Jewish and Greek culture.
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