"See Finegan, Handbook, 357–58, who sees the Synoptics and John in conflict
here and prefers the latter as ... 1 in Köstenberger, Encountering John; for the
identification of this disciple with the Fourth Evangelist, see H. M. Jackson, “
Ancient ..."
"7. purposes: “a grouping of texts related within the system of literature by their
sharing recognizably functionalized features of form and content.” Similarly, Craig
L. Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (2nd ed.; Downers Grove, IL
: InterVarsity Press, 2007), 298, n. 7, speaks of genre “as a category of literary
composition characterized by a particular style, form and content”; and Tom
Thatcher, “The Gospel Genre ..."
John (Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary) by Dr AndreasJ. Kostenberger , Clinton E. Arnold Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Zondervan ISBN-13: 978-0-310-52293-5, ISBN: 0-310-52293-5