Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS

1. ASSESSING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GOSPEL GENRE AND AUDIENCE

2. PROPOSING A NEW TYPOLOGY FOR GRAECO-ROMAN BIOGRAPHY: GENRE, SUB-GENRE AND QUESTIONS OF AUDIENCE

3. CRAFTING AUTHORITY IN THE PATRISTIC REFERENCES TO GOSPEL ORIGINS: AUTHORITATIVE PEOPLE, AUTHORITATIVE PLACES AND AUTHORITATIVE GOSPELS

4. AVOIDING CROSS-GENERIC COMPARISONS: THE ROLE OF GENRE IN ASSESSING AUDIENCE IN NON-CANONICAL AND CANONICAL GOSPELS

5. DEFINING GOSPEL AUDIENCES: GOSPEL COMMUNITIES, GOSPEL AUDIENCES AND ‘FOCUSED’ B???

6. ENVISAGING GOSPEL AUDIENCES IN SPACE AND TIME: ‘CONTEMPORARY’ B??? AND THE GOSPELS FOR ‘ALL NATIONS’

7. CONCLUSION

APPENDICES: INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Justin M. Smith challenges the consensus that the gospels were written for individual communities by evaluating whether the biography genre was intended to reach the largest possible audience.

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Justin M. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Religion and Philosophy department at Azusa Pacific University, USA.