I went looking for "Apocryphon of James" refs and found Julia D. Lindenlaub, then - 2020ish - teaching in Edinburgh. She proposes the John we got, which has 21 chapters, should be placed alongside the Epistle of the Apostles and the Secret Booke of John the Apostle.
To whit: John 1-20 proposed the Beloved Disciple as a literate man and the Gospel genre of text as a written genre. All three - John 21, EpAp, and ApocrJas - ran with this. It may be Dr Lindenlaub didn't take Evan Powell as seriously as other 1994 work she cites; but - to this paper, that doesn't matter. John 21 itself makes clear that it be afterthought, whether by the original author or no.
The fact of a "synoptic gospel tradition" across the other three NT "memoirs", as Justin (maybe also Papias and Irenaeus) saw them, rather forces that assessment. Luke states it outright. I don't think any of Lindenlaub's texts had any knowledge of Luke but, again, that doesn't matter; anyone faced with Mark and Matthew together had done so as readers of writings. Certainly Augustine will do this (even if he got the order wrong).
I didn't know that the Apocryphon was postJohannine. But then: I hadn't been keeping up with the scholarship. Lindenlaub seems solid. So, here by this blogpost we'll catch up.
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