Katz reference John Letters

Christian Alexander
Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

In this article cited below, the author says "Katz tried to see a reference to all three letters by taking “catholic” to refer not to the church but to the “catholic epistle” of John, namely 1 John." Who is Katz here? I searched for Catholic NEAR John AND Katz.  https://sermons.logos.com/sermons/770949-first-john-introduction-canonicity-of-johannine-epistles 

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,089 ✭✭✭✭✭

    IIRC there is no widely known Katz related to studies of canonicity nor Johannine epistles. If there is no footnote and no reference in a bibliography, you are probably not reading an academic resource. If you really need to know, try contacting the author via the website.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Lew Worthington
    Lew Worthington Member Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭

    I'm pretty sure the reference is to Peter Katz, a scholar who died shortly after his article (cited here) was published. He apparently fled Hitler's Germany and changed his name to Peter Walters, not necessarily in that order.

    Here's the citation:

    THE JOHANNINE EPISTLES IN THE MURATORIAN CANON
    Peter Katz

    The Journal of Theological Studies
    New Series, Vol. 8, No. 2 (October 1957), pp. 273-274

    His dissertation was published as:

    THE TEXT OF THE SEPTUAGINT: ITS CORRUPTIONS AND THEIR EMENDATION
    By the late
    PETER WALTERS (formerly Katz)
    Edited by
    D . W. GOODING
    Reader in Classics at the Queen's University of Belfast

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,089 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."