Bruce M. Metzger

Book Review: Methodological Weakness

eral summary of its significance, then a verse by verse linguistic and exegetical study is made. Clear headings are furnished for each section, and the format is such that the comments on any passage may be easily located. The print is readable and the paper good, which are commendable in such a work which will be consulted for reference again and again. Detailed points of difference in the interpretation of specific passages would be many if there were space, or if this were the place, to offer them. This reviewer feels particularly that too much quarter is given to the influence of Hellenistic thought on the Fourth Gospel. But it would be difficult to see how anyone could bypass this work in any examination of the Johannine problem. One may say that the appearance of this work is a milestone in Johannine study. It ranks along with the works of G. H. Dodd, Edwyn Hoskyns, J. H. Bernard, and B. F. Westcott as an English classic of Johannine interpretation.