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What Are the Gospels? Richard A. Burridge (King's College London)

What Are the Gospels? By Richard A. Burridge (King's College London)

Summary

Dr Burridge contends that scholarly study of the genre of the Gospels has gone full circle over the last century of critical scholarship.

What Are the Gospels? Summary

What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography by Richard A. Burridge (King's College London)

In this work Dr Burridge contends that scholarly study of the genre of the Gospels has gone full circle over the last century of critical scholarship. The question of how the Gospels should be categorised is still a vexed one and - surprisingly - there is still no consensus. This book analyses and evaluates the debate over the course of the last century. It shows that while the nineteenth-century assumption that the Gospels could be likened to biographies has been denied by the mainstream scholarship of this century, in recent years a biographical genre has begun to be assumed once more. Dr Burridge provides a good foundation for the re-introduction of this biographical view of the Gospels by comparing the work of the Evangelists to the development of biography in the Graeco-Roman world, and by drawing on insights from literary theory. The author shows that the view that the Gospels are unique, which is still widespread among biblical scholars, is false: a first-century reader would have seen the Gospels as biographies, or 'Lives' of Jesus, and they must therefore be interpreted in this light.

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' ... a model of its kind.' Expository Times

Table of Contents

Preface; Abbreviations; Part 1. The Problem: 1. Historical survey; 2. Genre criticism and literary theory; 3. Genre criticism and Graeco-Roman biography; 4. Evaluation of recent debate; Part 2. The Proposed Solution: 5. Generic features; 6. The generic features of early Graeco-Roman biography; 7. The generic features of later Graeco-Roman biography; 8. The Synoptic Gospels; 9. The Fourth Gospel; 10. Conclusions and implications; Notes; Verbal analysis charts; Bibliography; Index.

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What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography by Richard A. Burridge (King's College London)
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Cambridge University Press
19950511
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