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Do the gospels belong to a recognizable genre of literature from antiquity? What is a genre anyways? A discussion of Richard A Burridge's What Are the Gospels?
Richard Burridge, What are the Gospels?: a comparison with Graeco-Roman biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992).
Thanks to Carnegie Band for use of their song "Come Home."
Richard Burridge clearly overstates his case, but what he does draw attention to is that the earlier emphasis that the gospels were not biography or at least did not contain biographical features does not hold water when compared to ancient biography, which is in many respect very unlike either 20th/21st century biography or even Victorian biography ("Life and Letters..."). The nearest modern equivalent of bios-like but not biography that I can think of by way of comparison is C.P. Snow's Variety of Men.
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