Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels

Robert Matthew Calhoun (Herausgegeben von) Born 1971; 2011 PhD in New Testament and Early Christian Literature from the University of Chicago; since 2016 Research Assistant to the A. A. Bradford Chair, Texas Christian University (USA).David P. Moessner (Herausgegeben von) 1983 Dr.theol., University of Basel (Switzerland); since 2008 Honorary Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria (South Africa); since 2010 Faculty Associate in New Testament, Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands); since 2012 A.A. Bradford Chair and Professor of Religion, Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas, USA); since 2019 Senior Fellow of the 'Centre for Advanced Studies' (Regensburg, Germany).Tobias Nicklas (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1967; 2000 Promotion und 2004 Habilitation an der Universität Regensburg; Professor für Exegese und Hermeneutik des Neuen Testaments an der Fakultät für Katholische Theologie der Universität Regensburg.

• David P. Moessner/Tobias Nicklas/Robert Matthew Calhoun: IntroductionPart One: The Question of Genre and the GospelsRichard A. Burridge: The Gospels and Ancient Biography: 25 Years On, 1993-2018 - Werner H. Kelber: On "Mastering the Genre" - Michal Beth Dinkler: What Is a Genre? Contemporary Genre Theory and the Gospels - Elizabeth E. Shively: A Critique of Richard Burridge's Genre Theory: From a One-Dimensional to a Multi-Dimensional Approach to Gospel Genre - Carl Johan Berglund: The Genre(s) of the Gospels: Expectations from the Second Century - Sandra Huebenthal: What's Form Got to Do with It? Preliminaries on the Impact of Social Memory Theory for the Study of Biblical IntertextualityPart Two: Mark as Narrative in the Light of Ancient and Modern CriticismCilliers Breytenbach: The Gospel According to Mark: The Yardstick for Comparing the Gospels with Ancient Texts - Margaret M. Mitchell: Mark, the Long-Form Pauline εὐαγγέλιον - Stefan Alkier: Das Markusevangelium als Tragikomödie lesen - David P. Moessner: Mark's Mysterious 'Beginning' (1:1-3) as the Hermeneutical Code to Mark's 'Messianic Secret' - C. Clifton Black: The Kijé Effect: Revenants in the Markan Passion Narrative - Justin Marc Smith: Famous (or Not So Famous) Last Words: Last and Dying Words in Greco-Roman Biography and Mark 15:34 Revisited - Geert Van Oyen: Actio According to Quintilian ( Institutio oratoria 11.3) and the Performance of the Gospel of MarkPart Three: The Growth of the Gospel Tradition in Early Christian Literary CultureR. Alan Culpepper: The Foundations of Matthean Ethics - Wolfgang Grünstäudl: Continuity and Discontinuity in Luke's Gospel: Luke 9:51 and the Pre-Jerusalem Phase as a Test Case - John A. Darr: Reading Luke-Acts as Scriptural History and Philosophical Biography: A Pragmatic Approach to Lukan Intertextuality and Genre - Thomas R. Hatina: Intertextual Transformations of Jesus: John as Mnemomyth - Paul N. Anderson: Revelation and Rhetoric in John 9:1-10:21: Two Dialogical Modes Operative within the Johannine Narrative - Tobias Nicklas: Second-Century Gospels as "Re-Enactments" of Earlier Writings: Examples from the Gospel of Peter