novels.78 I defer discussion of historical monographs for chapter 6, since this proposal ultimately overlaps with biography and leads to similar conclusions about the Gospels’ merit as historical sources. Here, however, I address the question of the Gospels as novels. Of course, ancient novels are useful for literary comparisons with the Gospels, as many studies helpfully illustrate,79 but we find these similarities because both biographies and novels reflect the larger genre of narrative. Similar