![]() ![]() Why does Keener return to the theme? Several Graeco-Roman biographies, together with (some of) their own sources, have reached us. The Gospels were famously identified as biographies nearly 30 years ago by Richard Burridge in What are the Gospels? His argument has been widely accepted. ![]() “The main point of genre classification is finding a culturally intelligible category that generates audience expectations concerning how to understand a given work.” Luke is also a historian, Matthew a preacher, and John a maverick but they are all, first and foremost, biographers. In Christobiography, Craig Keener locates all four canonical Gospels, on a Venn diagram of such genres, within the circle of biography. Among Graeco-Roman elites, such categories were as familiar and as useful as they are today. MOST of us, as readers, choose books of the type or genre that we know we enjoy: history or theology, poetry or drama, crime novels or comic novels the list goes on. ![]()
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