The publication of Richard Burridge's What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous consensus about Gospel uniqueness.
Burridge argued convincingly for an understanding of the Gospels as biographies, a ubiquitous genre in the Graeco-Roman world.
To establish this claim, Burridge compared each of the four canonical Gospels to the many extant Graeco-Roman biographies.
Drawing on insights from literary theory, he demonstrat.
Baylor University Press What are the gospels?: a comparison with graeco-roman biography, paperback/richard a. burridge
