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What are the Gospels? : a comparison with Graeco-Roman biography
- Title
- What are the Gospels? : a comparison with Graeco-Roman biography / Richard A. Burridge.
- Author
- Burridge, Richard A., 1955-
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | BS2555.2 .B85 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 292 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Monograph series / Society for New Testament Studies ; 70
- Uniform Title
- Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ; 70.
- Subject
- Jesus Christ > Biography > History and criticism
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus > Biography
- Bible. > Language, style
- Bible
- Bibel
- New Testament. > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History
- Greek literature, Hellenistic > History and criticism
- Greek literature > Relation to the New Testament
- Religious biography > History and criticism
- Language and languages > Style
- Biography
- Greek literature, Hellenistic
- Greek literature > Relation to the New Testament
- Religious biography
- Biografie
- Biografische Literatur
- Griechisch
- Zeithintergrund
- Evangeliën
- Biografieën
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Univ. of Nottingham, 1989.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284) and indexes.
- Contents
- Part One: The Problem -- Historical survey -- Genre criticism and literary theory -- Genre criticism and Graeco-Roman biography -- Evaluation of recent debate -- Part two: the proposed solution -- Generic features -- Generic features of early Graeco-Roman -- Generic features of later Graeco-Roman -- Synoptic gospels -- Fourth gospel -- Conclusions and implications -- Reactions and developments.
- ISBN
- 0521412293
- 9780521412292
- 0521483638
- 9780521483636
- LCCN
- 91003023
- OCLC
- ocm23901330
- 23901330
- SCSB-1943361
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library