![]() ![]() Based on his analysis, Keener suggests biographers from the early imperial period, including the Gospels, sought to be historically accurate in their portrayals of their subjects, particularly if they were writing about well-known people shortly after their deaths. To rectify this issue, Keener provides a thorough discussion of ancient biographies, explores several Greco-Roman and Jewish counterparts to the Gospels, and concludes with an assessment of human memory. Although most scholars agree that these gospels are ancient biographies, they often do not examine ancient biographies to understand the implications of this conclusion. ![]() ![]() In Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels, Craig Keener explores the “degree of historical intention” in the canonical gospels based on comparisons to other ancient biographies (1). ![]()
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