Title: Why Bíos? : on the relationship between Gospel genre and implied audience /
Authors: Smith, Justin Marc,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible.; Church history Sources.; Church history Primitive and early church
Contents: Assessing the relationships between gospel genre and audience -- Proposing a new typology for Graeco-Roman biography : genre, sub-genre and questions of audience -- Crafting authority in the patristic references to gospel origins : authoritative people, authoritative places and authoritative gospels -- Avoiding cross-generic comparisons : the role of genre in assessing audience in non-canonical and canonical gospels -- Crafting authority defining gospel audiences : gospel communities, gospel audiences and 'focused' Bíos -- Envisaging gospel audiences in space and time : 'contemporary' Bíos and the gospels for 'all nations' -- Conclusion.