Resumen de Exegeting the Jews: The Early Reception of the Johannine "Jews" by Michael G. Azar (review)
The defendants are not guilty of that, he contends; rather, modern scholarship should answer for its superficiality in making such charges without studying the facts. [...]he can plausibly explain what these authors were really up to when treating “John’s Jews.” According to Azar, this common “typological” intent and strategy clears these writers of the malicious charges often hurled at them; he moves that the case be thrown out of court for lack of evidence. Portions that merely continue discussions of the main text might have been helpfully rescued from tiny type into the main body. [...]more “academese” needs filtering out, i.e., cumbersome passives and awkward constructions (“Cyril is lengthily adamant . . .”; 187n144); and a number of typos distract: strayed for stayed (3n4); catinae for catenae (6n11); simiarly for similarly (47n135); tenants for tenets (54n153); indented for intended (115); than for that (208).
