Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels (Biblia.com)

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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...

Many ancient biographies depend on earlier biographies or on other written sources closer to the time of the events narrated. Apart from public annals, however, the earliest biographies inevitably depend on memories—those of the biographer, eyewitness interviewees, or those who had heard the stories. I believe that the foregoing research demonstrates that mainstream ancient biographers had historiographic intention. That is, they sought to follow

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