the evangelists’.26 Those on one side say those on the other do not have any eye for poetic beauty, while these, for their part, say love for the holy text has made the other party blind to the text’s vices. To make its case, narrative criticism assumed the task of exposing how a Gospel works as narrative. It sought to present the text’s formal narrative structure, that is, the narrative mechanics according to which a Gospel was assumed to function as a structure of communication between the author