Why Bios? : on the relationship between Gospel genre and implied audience

Justin Marc Smith
London : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016
xv, 257 p. ; 24 cm.
Book
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G/F CollectionBS 2555 .52 .S653Available

  • Assessing the relationships between gospel genre and audience
  • Proposing a new typology for Graeco-Roman biography : genre, sub-genre and questions of audience
  • Crafting authority in the patristic references to gospel origins : authoritative people, authoritative places and authoritative gospels
  • Avoiding cross-generic comparisons : the role of genre in assessing audience in non-canonical and canonical gospels
  • Crafting authority defining gospel audiences : gospel communities, gospel audiences and 'focused' Bios
  • Envisaging gospel audiences in space and time : 'contemporary' Bios and the gospels for 'all nations'
  • Conclusion.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-248) and indexes.
  • Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of St Andrews, 2011.
  • Bloomsbury T & T Clark
  • 0567656608
  • 9780567656605
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/ANeJ