27 FEBRUARY 1971, page 25

Sir: As A Result Of My Recent Letter To You,

I have been involved re- peatedly over the last few days in heady and abstruse discussions (not entirely to my taste) about the nature of the supernatural. In the course of......

Sir: If John's Gospel Is Not The Work Of An

eye-witness, or is closely de- rived from one, I should like to know how the following 'undesign- ed coincidences' (clear marks of historical truth?) can be explained away. The......

Staunch Reader

Sir : My subscription to your jour- nal coincided precisely with your own arrival and I therefore have no basis upon which to judge the good or harm you may have caused the......

The Gospels And The Professor

Sir: One or two of your corre- spondents refer to the papyrus manuscripts as though they were all negligible fragments. But some of them are quite extensive; one, dated about AD......