What Are The Gospels?
Subtitle: A Comparison With Graeco-roman Biography (Biblical Resource)
Contributors: Graham Stanton (Foreword)
Edition: 2nd edition
Series: Biblical resource series
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: August 2004
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780802809711
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Books of the New Testament; N.T; Greek literature; Bible - General; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Language, style; Bibles; Jesus Christ; Greek literature, Hellenistic; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - New Testament; Relation to the New Testament; Biblical Studies - General; Religious biography; Bible; Gospels; History and Criticism
First sentence: The study of the genre of the gospels appears to have gone round in a full circle over the last century or so of critical scholarship.
Table of contents: title: Part one : The problem.; title: Historical survey; title: Genre criticism and literary theory; title: Genre criticism and Graeco-Roman biography; title: Evaluation of recent debate; title: Part two : The proposed solution.; title: Generic features; title: The generic features of early Graeco-Roman bioi; title: The generic features of later Graeco-Roman bioi; title: The synoptic Gospels; title: Fourth Gospel; title: Conclusions and implications; title: Reactions and developments; title: Appendix 1 : Analysis charts of verb subjects; title: Appendix 2 : Gospel genre, Christological controversy and the absence of rabbinic biography