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Christobiography : memory, history, and the reliability of the Gospels / Craig S. Keener.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Company, (c)2019.Description: 713 pages : 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802876751
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BS2555 .C475 2019
  • BS2555
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Contents:
Jesus in ancient historians -- What can be known about Jesus? -- Why historical-Jesus research needs the Gospels -- Default expectations and the Gospels -- We know more about Jesus than we think: Ancient biography -- We know less about Jesus than we want: Why history remembers
Not a novel proposal -- Examples and development of ancient biography -- What sort of biographies are the Gospels? -- What did first-century audiences expect of biographies?
Biographies and historical information -- What historical interests meant in antiquity -- Luke - Acts as biohistory -- Sources close to the events
Case studies: Biographies of recent characters use prior information -- Flex room: Literary techniques in ancient biographies
What about miracles? -- What about John?
Memory studies -- Jesus was a teacher -- Oral tradition, oral history -- The implications of this study
Subject: "The four canonical Gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus's life. The authors of these Gospels were intentional in how they handled historical information and sources. Building on recent work in the study of ancient biographies, Craig Keener argues that the writers of the canonical gospels followed the literary practices of other biographers in their day. In Christobiography he explores the character of ancient biography and urges students and scholars to appreciate the gospel writers' method and degree of accuracy in recounting the ministry of Jesus. Keener's Christobiography has far-reaching implications for the study of the canonical gospels and historical-Jesus research.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Jesus in ancient historians -- What can be known about Jesus? -- Why historical-Jesus research needs the Gospels -- Default expectations and the Gospels -- We know more about Jesus than we think: Ancient biography -- We know less about Jesus than we want: Why history remembers

PART 1: BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT JESUS -- Not a novel proposal -- Examples and development of ancient biography -- What sort of biographies are the Gospels? -- What did first-century audiences expect of biographies?

PART 2: BIOGRAPHIES AND HawaiiSTORY -- Biographies and historical information -- What historical interests meant in antiquity -- Luke - Acts as biohistory -- Sources close to the events

PART 3: TESTING THE RANGE OF DelawareVIATION -- Case studies: Biographies of recent characters use prior information -- Flex room: Literary techniques in ancient biographies

PART 4: TWO OBJECTIVE TO GOSPELS American Samoa HawaiiSTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES -- What about miracles? -- What about John?

PART 5: MaineMORIES ABOUT JESUS: MaineMORIES BEFORE MaineMOIRS -- Memory studies -- Jesus was a teacher -- Oral tradition, oral history -- The implications of this study

"The four canonical Gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus's life. The authors of these Gospels were intentional in how they handled historical information and sources. Building on recent work in the study of ancient biographies, Craig Keener argues that the writers of the canonical gospels followed the literary practices of other biographers in their day. In Christobiography he explores the character of ancient biography and urges students and scholars to appreciate the gospel writers' method and degree of accuracy in recounting the ministry of Jesus. Keener's Christobiography has far-reaching implications for the study of the canonical gospels and historical-Jesus research.

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