Many thanks to John Painter for taking the time to read my thesis/monograph and for the review in RBL out today:
Peter M. Phillips The Prologue to the Fourth Gospel: A Sequential Reading
Reviewed by John Painter I can see what John is saying. I particularly like the phrase "Perhaps not since C. H. Dodd has someone taken this [the Graeco-Roman] context so seriously"...and also the recognition of some of the other work in the text. I am not sure about his insistence on the readership of believers...but that's on ongoing saga. I was saddened a bit that he didn't engage with the sociolinguistics bit - which I think undermines the Johannine community arguments quite well. Perhaps I need to go beack to that in an article or something. Anyway. Enjoy reading. Pete
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