The Gospel of the Memra: Jewish Binitarianism and the Prologue to John by Daniel Boyarin - HTML preview

existent hymn.

143Haenchen, John, 1:122.

144Cf. Epp ("Wisdom," 136), who reads this connection differently. There are, nevertheless, some strong affinities between his interpretation and the one offered here. The biggest difference is methodological. Epp assumes contemporaneity between rabbinic theologoumena,

attested in texts centuries later, and the Gospel, thus positing that the Gospel reacts to the

"Jewish" ideas, reproducing inadvertently the supersessionist narrative. I, on the other hand,

prefer to read the rabbinic texts in their own chronological context as very possibly a reaction