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In the beginning of any historical enquiry some account may be expected of the questions to which answers are being sought. Of course, without any knowledge of the problems or opinions about possible solutions one could not even put the questions in the first place. And when Bultmann poses (or proposes) his two Johannine riddles he is keenly aware of the kind of answer he is looking for. His first riddle, the position of the Gospel in early Christianity, implies that the fundamental difficulty is to explain the momentous shift from the message of the earliest Christian preachers to that of the fourth evangelist. His solution, which places a hypothetical Gnostic source between early and late, virtually isolates John’s distinctive teaching from other sources and influences. In any case, if we are to avoid being trapped inside Bultmann’s personal problematic we must change or rather expand his question. As was explained in the Introduction it is necessary to ask instead what is the position of the Gospel in the history of Jewish thought (leaving the term ‘Jewish’ provisionally vague, since any closer definition would preju-dice the issue of our enquiry). Evidently such a reformulation of the question carries its own presuppositions, and part of the purpose of the present chapter is to justify these.
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