Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- 1 What Is a Gospel?
- 2 The Fourfold Gospel
- 3 Gospel Sources and Interrelations
- 4 The Scriptural Matrix of the Gospels
- 5 The Gospels and ‘the Historical Jesus’
- 6 The Gospels and the Reader
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
1 - What Is a Gospel?
from Part I - Approaching the Gospels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- 1 What Is a Gospel?
- 2 The Fourfold Gospel
- 3 Gospel Sources and Interrelations
- 4 The Scriptural Matrix of the Gospels
- 5 The Gospels and ‘the Historical Jesus’
- 6 The Gospels and the Reader
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
Identifies some of the defining characteristics of the gospel genre by comparing them with other genres such as folk tales, memoirs, biographies, scriptural narratives and martyrologies. The analysis leads to the significant conclusion that the gospels are in some sense sui generis – written versions of early Christian teaching and preaching about Jesus.
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 9 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Bauckham, Richard, ed., The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998)Google Scholar
Bauckham, Richard, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017)Google Scholar
Bockmuehl, Markus, and Hagner, Donald A., eds., The Written Gospel (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Burridge, Richard A., What Are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, 3rd ed. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018)Google Scholar
Edwards, M. J., and Swain, Simon, eds., Portraits: Biographical Representation in the Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)Google Scholar
Horsley, Richard A., Draper, Jonathan A. and Foley, John Miles, eds., Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2006)Google Scholar
Jaffee, Martin S., Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE–400 CE (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)Google Scholar
Kelber, Werner H., The Oral and the Written Gospel: The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition, Mark, Paul and Q (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983)Google Scholar
Kelber, Werner, and Byrskog, Samuel, eds., Jesus in Memory: Traditions in Oral and Scribal Perspective (Waco, TX: Baylor, 2009)Google Scholar
Stanton, Graham N., Jesus and Gospel (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yassif, Eli, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999)Google Scholar
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