The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel Author Greta Eskridge s will through the Holy

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The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel Author Greta Eskridge s will through the HolyWhat 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 memory.