Why Bíos? On the Relationship Between Gospel Genre and Implied Audience

Name: Why Bíos? On the Relationship Between Gospel Genre and Implied Audience
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By Smith, Justin Marc

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Justin Marc Smith argues that the gospels were intended to be addressed to a wide and varied audience. He does this by considering them to be works of ancient biography, comparative to the Greco-Roman biography. The earliest Christian interpreters of the Gospels did not understand their works to be sectarian documents. Rather, the wider context of Jesus literature in the second and third centuries points toward the broader Christian practice of writing and disseminating literary presentations of Jesus and Jesus traditions as widely as possible. Smith addresses the difficulty in reconstructing the various gospel communities that might lie behind the gospel texts and suggests that the 'all nations' motif present in all four of the canonical gospels suggests an ideal secondary audience beyond those who could be identified as Christian.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

280

Release Date:

2016-06-30

Publication Date:

2016-06-30

Publisher:

Bloomsbury 3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0567669556

ISBN13:

9780567669551

Weight:

430 g

Height:

156 cm

Width:

234 cm

Thickness:

15 cm

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