50 Iwan M. Whiteley John informs his reader of his hermeneutical framework in 1:4-5. A text does not always need to conform to the Greek language. A writer is permitted to reformulate language as long as they are able to transfer the new morphological information to the intended audience. The primary strategy that John employs that leads to the presence of anacolutha is that he highlights a section of text that is manipulated later in his work. The reader is able to detect that the later text is based on the former due to an amalgamation of linguistic, hermeneutical and contextual factors. Anacolutha can be present because John is quoting or reflecting the syn- tax of a previously highlighted portion of text. He can be referring to the referent of a metaphor and there are even more complicated constructs that can only be understood from their context. A plural verb may follow a singular collective noun, and John also adopts Semitisms. Finally, it was suggested that John’s ἀκούω + acc. + gen. structure is not actually an anacoluthon; the unusual grammatical succession of this construct is consistent with the general use of ἀκούω even though the language is unusual. Iwan WHITELEY Tyndale House 36 Selwyn Gardens Cambridge (ENGLAND)