Genre doesn’t settle all the historical questions, but it does suggest where we should start, and that is not with the premise that the Gospel writers are simply making things up, but rather with the premise that they’re probably depending on a substantial amount of information that they edit and present in a certain way—but that they actually are depending on information. Novels, as I said to the teacher, were a very different genre. They lacked clear sources. They didn’t have historical prefaces