yalla

I've got a way-out theory on the origin of the gospel of "John".
Somewhere [ found it...4.35] he says that from seeding to harvest is but 4 months.
Or something like that, you can probably find it if you want.
So one day I read a bit about agricultural practice in the Palestine region and how long between sewing/harvesting for various crops.
Usually in the vicinity of 6 months, maybe more.
So I thought that was strange and discovered that only with the aid of irrigation is a crop likely to grow within 4 months.
So I thought maybe "John" was a "towny" type only familiar with irrigated agriculture.
As in the Nile region.
That is, Egypt.
Same place they found the oldest extant bit of g"John" [p52].
The stronghold of logos type theology.
Bingo!

Told you it was wayout.
But in my defence its probably no worse than some other speculations I've read around this sort of thing [who wrote what when and where].
cheers
yalla

Malachi151

Sounds reasonable to me, but of course we need more info, but that alone looks okay, we just need more info to see if anything else contradicts this conclusion.