RT Article
T1 Why Does the Genre of the Gospels Matter?: The Gospels’ Genre and Historical Jesus Research
JF The catholic biblical quarterly
VO 87
IS 4
SP 655
OP 671
A1 Vytlačilová, Magdalena
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1941379001
AB The primary aim of this study is to assess whether the contemporary consensus on the genre of the Gospels has contributed to a deeper understanding of early Christianity and the historical Jesus. I demonstrate that many modern scholars tend to understand the classification of the Gospels as biographies only as a matter of taxonomy, overlooking the broader implications of this perspective, namely, for areas such as the purpose of the Gospels, study of Jesus’s self-understanding, and chronology of his life.
K1 Gospel genre
K1 Gospels as biographies
K1 Historical Jesus
K1 historicity of Gospels
DO 10.1353/cbq.2025.a974782