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Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

Demonstrates the reliability of the canonical gospels by exploring the genre of ancient biography. The canonical gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus’s life. The authors of these gospels were intentional in how they handled historical information and sources. Building on recent work in the study of ancient biographies, Craig Keener argues that the writers of the canonical...

information as important building blocks in their constructions, despite the historian’s role as architect. Shaping and even developing information differ from pure invention of stories. As some scholars have warned, recognizing or dismissing the reality of particular historical events, for example, Nazi murders of Jews, Roma people, gays, and others will produce significant ethical and moral consequences.34 Despite this tendency among some readers of histories, most historians do accept the possibility
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