quality of characterization, social setting and occasion, and authorial intention and purpose.53 Not all of these features were present in every example, but there was enough similarity throughout the group as a whole to be able to demonstrate a “family resemblance.” The strength of Burridge’s approach was to show that in order to be classified as bioi the gospels do not have to cohere in every respect with a chosen biography (or even a group of biographies); all they need is to be broadly within