This is not to say that the Johannine prologue is simply an affirmation, with minor modifications, of the worldview of Sirach. Rather, it must be seen, at least in part, as a subversive retelling of the story of Wisdom. There were other, different, subversive retellings of this story within the broad Jewish tradition. The most striking is 1 Enoch 42, which provides perhaps the starkest cosmic dualism anywhere in Jewish apocalyptic:
