[B-Greek] John's prologue prose or poetry?

Jack Kilmon jkilmon at historian.net
Sat Dec 17 20:28:52 EST 2005


There are many, including myself, who think the prologue is an antiphonal 
hymn added to the Gospel (which originally began at 1:19) sometime in the 
2nd...or perhaps the 3rd century.

Jack Kilmon


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> Been doing some more thinking on this.  My seeing this as poetry is based
> entirely on applying my understanding of Hebrew poetic forms to John 1:1.
> Is this valid?  I have no experience with Greek poetic structure.  Can
> anyone comment on how it might differ?
>
> James Bowick
>> It definitely looks like poetry to me.  The lines are in parallel
>> thematically, structuraly and even phonetically, especially in the 
>> vowels.
>>  Each line seems to build on the idea of the one previous almost like
>> steps, gving it a building feeling.  I have done no reading on this, but
>> these are my admittedly casual observations.
>>
>> James Bowick
>>
>>> I was just reading John's prologue, John 1:1 ff.  To me this passage has
>>> always looked like it has a lot of poetic elements in it but I don't see
>>> that commented on very much. What is the consensus of the list. Is this
>>> prose or poetry?
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Michael Abernathy
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