TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keener,Craig S.
TI  - Christobiography: memory, history, and the reliability of the Gospels 
SN  - 9780802876751
AV  - BS2555 .C475 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - Eerdmans Publishing Company
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Bible
KW  - Gospels
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Biography as a literary form
KW  - Classical biography
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Historicity of Jesus Christ
KW  - Christian Bible Exegesis & Hermeneutics
KW  - Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
KW  - New Testament Criticism & Interpretation
KW  - Bible - BIB
N1  - 2; 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; 2
N2  - "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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