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Document Details : Title: When Papyri and Codices Speak Subtitle: Revisiting John 2,23-25 Author(s): TAM, Josaphat C. Journal: Biblica Volume: 95 Issue: 4 Date: 2014 Pages: 570-588 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.95.4.3186131 Abstract : This paper revisits the role of John 2,23-25 in its literary and manuscript context. Contrary to many Johannine commentators who take it as an introduction to the Nicodemus pericope, 2,23-25 should be linked more to the preceding context, not the following. This view is supported by evidence from the sense-unit delimitations observed in the Greek papyri and codices dated within ca. 300 years from the New Testament era. Viewed from a narrative perspective, 2,23-25 should be seen as an anticlimactic concluding remark connected to 1,35-2,22. |
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