person’s character but which may not have happened. Nevertheless, Burridge has identified a key point which has moved the debate forward and which tells us that the focus of the Gospels is Jesus, the subject of the ‘life’. This might sound blindingly obvious, but for much of the last hundred years the heart of Gospels scholarship has been in examining the communities supposed to be behind the Gospels, rather than their true subject. More recent scholarship (such as the work of N. T. Wright, M. Borg