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What Are the Gospels?

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

What Are the Gospels?

By Richard A. Burridge

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The publication of Richard Burridge's What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous consensus about Gospel uniqueness. Burridge argued convincingly for an understanding of the Gospels as biographies, a ubiquitous genre in the Graeco-Roman world. To establish this claim, Burridge compared each of the four canonical Gospels to the many extant Graeco-Roman biographies. Drawing on insights from literary theory, he demonstrated that the previ...Show more

Historical and comparative linguistics

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9781481308748

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Baylor University Press

Published year

2018

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What Are the Gospels?

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