from a holistic point of view, which means that narrative critics focus on the narrative of each Gospel as a whole and try to come up with an integrated interpretation of all the elements of the narrative. This assumption of unity is, or at least narrative critics take it to be, a general feature of the interpretation of literary texts. Indeed, in a literary context, our expectations of unity and coherence of a text appear to be stricter than usual. As readers of literature, we expect that even apparently