TY - JOUR AU - Basta, Pasquale PY - 2021/07/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Gospel as Literary Genre and Form of Language JF - The Biblical Annals JA - ba VL - 11 IS - 3 SE - New Testament DO - 10.31743/biban.12683 UR - https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ba/article/view/12683 SP - 441-458 AB - <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">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. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="justify">&nbsp;</p> ER -