[1] It was likely authored by Bergr Sokkason and is written in the 'florid style' characteristic of the North Icelandic Benedictine School.
Secondly, the narrative structure is based around a series of exempla, and appears to have been influenced by the Dominican style of preaching.
[3][4] For this reason, Sigurdson has argued against Guðrún Ása Grímsdóttir's suggestion that Jóns þáttr may have been written as a plan for a fully-fledged bishop's saga.
[2] The þáttur does not include details of Jón's ecclesiastical or political activities which are recorded in Lárentíus saga and other sources.
[4] Sigurdson writes "Jón Halldórsson was an innovative and influential bishop, a legal expert, and a bureaucrat; the omission of any of this from his þáttur serves to further prove how far removed this piece of literature is from any of the bishops' sagas.