Two of mine are that, of the four Gospels, Mark wrote first and John wrote last. As well, I hold to the Doddian school that John was not at all dependent on the Synoptic Gospels; in fact, he was most likely unaware of their specific contents, possibly even of their existence. This means that both Mark and John were writing, in a sense, a new literary genre that would later be called Gospel. Yet, they are radically different. There are several ironies here: If Mark wrote first, he created a genre