The Christian Gospels:

A Literary and Historical Introduction 　

This short chapter addresses the technical matter of what exactly a Gospel is. What kind of Genre is a Gospel and where does it fit in with the various types of literature that were popular in the highly literate Greco-Roman world?

Read Carefully:

What to Expect, p. 69

Major Theme: the Genre of the NT Gospels, pp. 70-73

Focus on:

What is a Genre?

Biography as a Greco-Roman Genre,
- the Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans
the Gospels as Ancient Biographies;

the NT Gospels are a sub-category of Greco-Roman Biography

but with distinctive features of their own

Learn the Key Terms on p. 74 with special reference to their original context in the chapter