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

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

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

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

Overview

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

ISBN-13: 9780567669551
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/30/2016
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies , #518
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Justin M. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Religion and Philosophy department at Azusa Pacific University, USA.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS

1. ASSESSING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GOSPEL GENRE AND AUDIENCE

2. PROPOSING A NEW TYPOLOGY FOR GRAECO-ROMAN BIOGRAPHY: GENRE, SUB-GENRE AND QUESTIONS OF AUDIENCE

3. CRAFTING AUTHORITY IN THE PATRISTIC REFERENCES TO GOSPEL ORIGINS: AUTHORITATIVE PEOPLE, AUTHORITATIVE PLACES AND AUTHORITATIVE GOSPELS

4. AVOIDING CROSS-GENERIC COMPARISONS: THE ROLE OF GENRE IN ASSESSING AUDIENCE IN NON-CANONICAL AND CANONICAL GOSPELS

5. DEFINING GOSPEL AUDIENCES: GOSPEL COMMUNITIES, GOSPEL AUDIENCES AND 'FOCUSED' Bíot

6. ENVISAGING GOSPEL AUDIENCES IN SPACE AND TIME: 'CONTEMPORARY' Bíot AND THE GOSPELS FOR 'ALL NATIONS'

7. CONCLUSION

APPENDICES: INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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