What Are the Gospels? (eBook)
524 Seiten
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-0876-2 (ISBN)
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 on insights from literary theory, he demonstrated that the previously widespread view of the Gospels as unique compositions was false. Burridge went on to discuss what a properly "biographical" perspective might mean for Gospel interpretation, which was amply demonstrated in the revised second edition reflecting on how his view had become the new consensus.
This third, twenty-fifth anniversary edition not only celebrates the continuing influence of What Are the Gospels?, but also features a major new contribution in which Burridge analyzes recent debates and scholarship about the Gospels. Burridge both answers his critics and reflects upon the new directions now being taken by those who accept the biographical approach. This new edition also features as an appendix a significant article in which he tackles the related problem of the genre of Acts.
A proven book with lasting staying power, What Are the Gospels? is not only still as relevant and instructive as it was when first published, but will also doubtlessly inspire new research and scholarship in the years ahead.
lt;P>Richard Burridge is Visiting Professor of Biblical Interpretation at King's College London.
Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Abbreviations
[new to the 25th anniversary edition] Gospels and Biography, 2000-2018: A Critical Review and Implications for Future Research
A. The Literary Theory of Genre
B. Gospel Scholarship and Commentaries
C. Gospel Genre and Audience
D. The Genre of Acts
E. Roman Catholic Reactions
F. Biography and Historiography
G. Further Implications for New Research
Conclusion
Critical Review Bibliography
PART ONE: THE PROBLEM
1. Historical Survey
2. Genre Criticism and Literary Theory
3. Genre Criticism and Graeco-Roman
4. Evaluation of Recent Debate
PART TWO: THE PROPOSED SOLUTION
5. Generic Features
6. The Generic Features of Early Graeco-Roman Bioi
7. The Generic Features of Later Graeco-Roman Bioi
8. The Synoptic Gospels
9. The Fourth Gospel
10. Conclusions and Implications
11. Reactions and Developments
Appendix I: Analysis Charts of Verb Subjects
Appendix II: Gospel Genre, Christological Controversy and the Absence of Rabbinic Biography
Appendix III: The Genre of Acts—Revisited
Select Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index of Names and Subjects
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.10.2018 |
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Verlagsort | Waco |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare |
Schlagworte | Bioi, Gospel genre, Gospel studies, Greco-Roman Lives, Form criticism, Redaction criticism, New Testament background, Genre criticism, Literary theory, Genre and mode, New Testament Greek, Verb subjects, Plutarch, Xenophon, Apollonius of Tyana |
ISBN-10 | 1-4813-0876-9 / 1481308769 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4813-0876-2 / 9781481308762 |
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