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What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography is unavailable, but you can change that!

Richard Burridge’s acclaimed study of the Christian Gospels is significantly updated and expanded in this second edition. Here Burridge engages the field of Gospel studies over the last hundred years, arguing convincingly for viewing the Gospels as biographical documents of the sort common throughout the Graeco-Roman world. In pursuing the question of his book’s title, Burridge compares the work...

history.’33 Other fragments of Satyrus preserved in Athenaeus also show this liking for anecdote, particularly if sensational or outrageous.34 Close examination reveals that these literary forms are present in all the βίοι, forming the stuff of their narrative. Evagoras betrays its rhetorical influence through units of formal oratory: prooimion, comparison, exordium, apostrophe. On the other hand, units which might be classed as ‘legends’ or ‘miracle-stories’ are found in the Moses. Thus we conclude
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