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Poetics for the Gospels? Rethinking Narrative Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Poetics, the study of the making of literary works, regards the gospels as literature, in contrast to the historical-critical approach. Petri Merenlahti makes the case that poetics offers a vital critical tool to interpreting the gospels. But he argues that poetics must also be ‘historical’, as perceptions of literary form and value are not fixed, but evolve and develop from one time and culture...

1 Introduction ‘[T]he real question is whether the poetic function of the gospels in the form that we now have them is a worthwhile subject for investigation.’ Mark Allan Powell (1990), 93. In the Western tradition of literature and criticism, the term poetics refers to studies that concern the making of literary works of art. In these studies, the point of view may be either practical or theoretical. In the former case, the point at issue is how to produce good literature. This line of tradition
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