gospels as ancient biographies

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Hello Christian, you may find Mobile Ed: NT301 The Gospels as Ancient Biography: A Theological and Historical Perspective to be interesting.

Brad

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1259832#Comment_1259832

Christobiography: Memories, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels should also be helpful.

Jan Krohn

What is a good sources on gospels as ancient biographies?

Mike Licona.

Probably this book, sadly not in Logos... Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? - Michael R. Licona, Craig A. Evans - Oxford University Press (oup.com)

This one looks interesting too for the question. The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach | Logos Bible Software

And of course his website Risen Jesus - A Ministry of Mike Licona and his YT channel (1) Mike Licona - YouTube

Allen Browne

What is a good sources on gospels as ancient biographies?

Richard A. Burridge, What Are the Gospels? Eerdmans, 2004

Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Second Edition. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017

Br Damien-Joseph OSB

You'll find that the narrative-critical approach is keen on this kind of research. Here are some sources that inspired my learning about the gospels as coming out of a context of greco-roman biographies:

Characterization in the Gospels: Reconceiving Narrative Criticism (Sheffield Academic, 1999)
The Gospels as Stories by Jeannine K. Brown (Baker, 2020)

And these, which are not available in Logos to my knowledge:

D. A. Russell, “On Reading Plutarch’s Lives,” Greece and Rome 13 (1976)
The Gospels and Jesus, 2nd ed. by Graham Stanton (Oxford University Press) (this is a good general historical and literary introduction to the gospels)