What Are the Gospels?
A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)
New Ed edition
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Word Count
76,500 words, Guess
Page Count
306 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhataregospelsco0000burr_x5e3
- ISBN-100521483638
- ISBN-139780521483636
- OCLC Control Number34280220
- Better World Books9780521483636
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL7742546M
Classifications
- LCCBS2555.2.B85 1995
Description
Richard Burridge's acclaimed study of the Christian Gospels is significantly updated and expanded in this second edition. Here Burridge engages the field of Gospel studies over the last hundred years, arguing convincingly for viewing the Gospels as biographical documents of the sort common throughout the Graeco-Roman world. In pursuing the question of his book's title, Burridge compares the work of the Christian evangelists with that of Graeco-Roman biographers. Drawing on insights from literary theory, he demonstrates that the widespread view of the Gospels as unique is false and discusses what a properly "biographical" perspective means for Gospel interpretation. New to this second edition of What Are the Gospels? are a long final chapter detailing the recent paradigm shift in Gospel scholarship -- a shift due in large part to this very book -- a foreword by Graham Stanton, and an appendix on the absence of comparable early Jewish biographies. - Publisher.
First Sentence
The study of the genre of the gospels appears to have gone round in a full circle over the last century or so of critical scholarship.
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