indeed, it has sometimes been pointed out that if the redaction-critics were right, that is, if the evangelists really took as much liberty with their material as they seem to have done, the chances of finding pre-literary forms in their ‘pure’ state is fairly limited.22 The revival of interest in form-criticism in recent years has taken place, perhaps not surprisingly, within the revived Bultmann school, offering updated versions of the Hellenistic hypothesis.
