The Gospel as Literary Genre and Form of Language

• Authors: Pasquale Basta

Title variants

PL

The Gospel as Literary Genre and Form of Language

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The studies on the literary genre “gospel” are often compared with the so-called Greco-Roman bíoi and popular literature. The points of contact are numerous and undeniable. As well as the differences and peculiarities of the gospels, whose link with the Hebrew Bible is a unicum to be taken into account. In particular, the typology, with its network of references, makes the canonical gospels a text proceeding through continuous phenomena of association and repetition with the ancient Scriptures. As result, the nar­rative takes on particular tones insofar as it indulges little in the chronicle, concentrating rather on the richness of meaning hidden in entire story of Christ. Consequently, the gos­pels are evidence of a mixed genre, having some characteristics of the Greco-Roman bíoi and contemporary popular Lives, together with constant re-elaboration of OT elements re-read and applied in a typological key. And it could not be otherwise because the events and the protagonist of the gospels perfectly intersect the horizontal and vertical dimensions of a story merging with the eternal.  

Keywords

EN

Gospels; literary genre; Greco-Roman bíoi; volks literature; typology

PL

Gospels; literary genre; Greco-Roman bíoi; volks literature; typology

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: The Biblical Annals
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 441-458

Dates

published

2021-07-16

Contributors

author

Pasquale Basta

• Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/biban.12683