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$\"\"$ <\/a> $\"\"$ Mike Kok has been blogging through the question of the genre of the Gospels and the history of scholarship on the subject, and of late he has reached Richard Burridge\u2019s work on whether the Gospels are Bioi, i.e. ancient biographies of the sort written in that historical and cultural context. His latest post<\/a> features a chart comparing the features in a number of works (the right column of which unfortunately doesn\u2019t show up properly in Chrome).<\/p>\n

Andrew Lincoln\u2019s forthcoming book Born of a Virgin?: Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition, and Theology<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em> also tackles the genre of the Gospels, and after noting that ancient biographies often include infancy stories which must be judged ahistorical, and that these elements in some of the Gospels actually serve both to clue us in to their genre, and to encourage us to view the infancy stories in a similar way.<\/p>\n

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