The publication of Richard Burridge\'s What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous consensus about Gospel uniqueness.
Drawing on insights from literary theory, he demonstrat.
To establish this claim, Burridge compared each of the four canonical Gospels to the many extant Graeco-Roman biographies.
Burridge argued convincingly for an understanding of the Gospels as biographies, a ubiquitous genre in the Graeco-Roman world.
The publication of Richard Burridge\'s What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous consensus about Gospel uniqueness