New Testament

Week 19: The Epistles of John

1 John, 2 John, 3 John

4 March 2027

Lesson video will be posted after the class has been held.

• Spencer Kraus, “Finding the Elect Lady,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 67 (2025): 71–78; review of Lincoln H. Blumell, Lady Eclecte: The Lost Woman of the New Testament (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2025). For centuries, the consensus reading of The Second Epistle of John maintained that it was written to a local church, metaphorically addressed as an “elect lady.” However, new findings from BYU professor Lincoln Blumell indicate that the “elect lady” was an actual individual in the early Christian world who can be identified by name.