📹 1. PIO412 2025-11-13 01
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THE GOSPELS: GENRE, PURPOSE, AND JOHN’S DISTINCTIVES
This lecture explains what kind of writings the Gospels are and why genre awareness shapes how we read them. It frames them as historical narratives with theological aims, closest in form to Greco-Roman biography. It compares the Synoptic Gospels with John and highlights what makes John’s portrait of Jesus distinctive. It closes with reasons the Gospels were written and why later “gospels” were rejected as late and unreliable.
This lecture explains what kind of writings the Gospels are and why genre awareness shapes how we read them. It frames them as historical narratives with theological aims, closest in form to Greco-Roman biography. It compares the Synoptic Gospels with John and highlights what makes John’s portrait of Jesus distinctive. It closes with reasons the Gospels were written and why later “gospels” were rejected as late and unreliable.