What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography

Description

While the nineteenth-century assumption that the Gospels could be likened to biographies has been denied by the scholarly consensus of this century, in recent years a biographical genre has begun to be assumed once more. Richard Burridge provides a good foundation for the reintroduction of this view of the Gospels, and compares the work of the evangelists with ten Graeco-Roman biographies, drawing on insights from literary theory in the process.