Philo - John

A collegue of mine (thanks; Gunnar Haaland) points me to a recent article by a Sweedish scholar which includes some discussion of the Vitae in Philo's works in connection with the quest for the genre of John:
Tobias Hagerland;
John’s Gospel: A Two-Level Drama?
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Vol. 25 No. 3 (March 2003): 309-322
The Journal's website provides the following abstract:
During the past decades, scholars have attempted to reconstruct the history of a Johannine community through reading John’s Gospel as a two-level drama. According to this understanding, the Gospel relates events that took place in the community after Jesus’ earthly ministry, while these events are presented as a story about Jesus himself. The present essay evaluates this allegorical reading of the Gospel, first through a search for ancient parallels that would constitute a genre of the two-level drama, secondly through a discussion of the alleged intra-textual indications of the Gospel’s allegorical character. The conclusion arrived at is that both the search for an ancient two-level genre and the search for hints of allegory in the text are unsuccessful. The hypothesis of a Johannine two-level drama is therefore highly implausible. I have not been able to read the article yet, but according to this abstract, it seems to argue a very interesting point of view.