and Lohse continued to assert that the gospels were sui generis and not to be compared with other ancient literature.40 However, by 1978 Petersen was surely right to observe: Redaction critics are rarely conscious of the consequences of their conclusions for the historical-critical evolutionary theory.… Nevertheless, the evolutionary theory has collapsed because redaction criticism has pulled the plug on its source of power. Whereas the theory saw the power of literary formation in a romantic symbiosis