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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...

the texts of the gospels, features which include aspects of the story-world of the narrative and the rhetorical techniques employed to tell the story.’4 According to Rhoads, the new, literary approach involved for him, as a New Testament scholar, two shifts of perspective. The first shift moved toward a more holistic point of view, that is, an emphasis on the unity of the narrative. Whereas traditional source-, form-, and redaction-critical methods had cut the gospels into small pieces of tradition
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