What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography

by Richard A. Burridge

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481308750
• ISBN13: 9781481308755
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"