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NT301 The Gospels as Ancient Biography: A Theological and Historical Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Jonathan Pennington, a specialist in the Gospels, discusses how to interpret these ancient biographies based on their genre rather than focusing only on their content. This course shows how a literary reading of the Gospels reveals the beauty of Jesus’ life.

His message—“gospel,” because they understand that what they are doing is saying the same thing that Isaiah prophesied and spoke about and predicted has now come into being in the Lord Jesus. And what is the content of that gospel? I would suggest to you that it’s the same as it is in Isaiah—that God reigns and He is returning to establish His reign on the earth. And when you read the Gospels, you see that’s exactly what Jesus is preaching as well. And that’s why that phrase I mentioned a moment