What are the Gospels? : a comparison with Graeco-Roman biography / Richard A. Burridge.

By: Burridge, Richard A, 1955-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies): 70.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992Description: xiii, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0521412293 (hardback)Subject(s): Jesus Christ -- Biography -- History and criticism | Bible. Gospels -- Language, style | Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and Criticism | Greek literature -- Relation to the New Testament | Religious biography -- History and criticismDDC classification: 226/.066 LOC classification: BS2555.2 | .B85 1992
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Summary: 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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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Univ. of Nottingham, 1989.

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 275-284.

gPart One: The Problem --
_tHistorical survey --
_tGenre criticism and literary theory --
_tGenre criticism and Graeco-Roman biography -- Evaluation of recent debate --
_gPart two: the proposed solution --
_tGeneric features --
_tGeneric features of early Graeco-Roman --
_tGeneric features of later Graeco-Roman --
_tSynoptic gospels --
_tFourth gospel --
_tConclusions and implications --
_tReactions and developments.

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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