The place of the Gospels in the general history of literature
By: Karl Ludwig Schmidt ; translated by Byron R. McCane ; with an introduction by John Riches
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Work titles: Stellung der Evangelien in der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Greek biographical literature; title: Judaism and Hellenism; title: Low literature from various periods and peoples; title: Analogy, not genealogy; title: The literary development of the non-canonical Acts, (literary) lives of saints and martyr-acts; title: Gospels and biography; title: The boundary between high literature and low literature; title: Simple cases of folk-biography; title: Methodology; title: The multiformity of the framework of the story of Jesus; title: German folk-books; title: Legends of the saints; title: Ancient Christian monastic stories; title: The Franciscan legends; title: Goethe and the legends of St. Rochus; title: The cultic character of legends of saints, Apophthegmata Patrum, and the Gospels