Synoptics and John fit this genre.92 So forceful is his work on Gospel genre as biography that one knowledgeable reviewer concludes, “This volume ought to end any legitimate denials of the canonical Gospels’ biographical character.”93 Arguments concerning the biographical character of the Gospels have thus come full circle: the Gospels, long viewed as biographies until the early twentieth century, now again are widely viewed as biographies. Classifying the Gospels