concerned with questions of dating, provenance, and authorship, the Bible as literature movement, and the rise of biblical theology, among others. There were two major responses to such developments. The first was development of historical criticism and the other was a pietist response, with each of them evident in various forms in the responses to historical-critical thought regarding John’s gospel.9 The result for textual interpretation was the desire to apply the same critical standards to the
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