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.
General
Imprint: |
T. & T. Clark
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Library of New Testament Studies |
Release date: |
June 2016 |
Authors: |
Justin Marc Smith
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-567-66955-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-567-66955-6 |
Barcode: |
9780567669551 |
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