That they are religious texts is obvious and no ancient historical document is un problematic in some way I agree that this issue shouldn t be discussed in depth but the issue of genre is an important one and as such I think it is important to come to an agreement on what the genre gospel is I could cite sources on this but I will just say that the best definition of the gospel genre I have seen is that it is a broad and difficult to define genre that includes elements of biography historiography and theology I think we can all agree that it includes elements of these so I think we should just go with this and not focus too much on this issue