What Are the Gospels?

Richard A. Burridge

earliest edition we have, 2004 Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B., 2004

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 biogr...

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What Are the Gospels? edition · 2020 · Baylor University Press · 524 pages · 9781481308755
What Are the Gospels? edition · 2018 · Baylor University Press · 524 pages · 9781481308748
What Are the Gospels? edition · 2018 · Baylor University Press · 524 pages · 9781481308762
What Are the Gospels? edition · 2004 · Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B. · 9781467403993

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