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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.

The idea of genre is basically that every type of literature creates a set of expectations between the reader and the writer based on certain cultural and literary conventions that really you pick up from a pretty early age in your own culture that help you learn how to interpret what’s about to be said. So one illustration I always like to give is that if you are standing at the grocery store and you see a couple different magazines or newspapers there right at the final impulse item section and