The First Biography of Jesus
Bond, Helen K![The First Biography of Jesus](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/460/46018344/CHSBZCOP0346018344.jpg)
What difference does it make to identify Mark's gospel as an ancient biography?Reading the gospels as ancient biographies makes a profound difference to the way that we interpret them. Biography immortalizes the memory of the subject, creating a literary monument to the person's life and teaching. Yet it is also a bid to legitimize a specific view of that figure and to position an author and his audience as appropriate "gatekeepers" of that me...