John’s Prologue is a feat of Christological midrash on Gen 1:1, intentionally merged with scriptural witness to God’s creative speech-acts, primitive confessions of the pre-existent Son of God, Jewish Hellenistic wisdom traditions, messianic discourse, and fashioned in such a way as to deliberately resource and resonate with tropes in Greco Roman philosophy. 

 Essentially, John takes the Logos as a malleable yet popular concept in Greco-Roman philosophy for cosmic rationality. He brings the Logos into an intertwining revelation in Jewish wisdom traditions and recedes it with Christological meaning.

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