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Abbreviations | p. ix |
General Bibliography | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xiii |
What is a Gospel | p. 1 |
Ancient Biography | p. 2 |
Gospels and Apostles-A Key Combination | p. 11 |
Mark's Innovation: Framing the Ministry and the Passion | p. 17 |
Matthew and Luke Improve on the Model | p. 18 |
Note: Alternate Suggestions for Genre | p. 23 |
Note: The Four-Gospel Canon | p. 26 |
Books and Believers in Early Christianity | p. 31 |
Early Christianity as an Explosion of Texts | p. 32 |
How Books Were Written | p. 37 |
How the Gospel Texts Have Come Down to Us | p. 41 |
When Texts Differ: What the Text Critic Contributes | p. 43 |
The Septuagint: Scripture Cited in the Gospels | p. 47 |
Marcion and the Idea of a Second-Century ôCanonö | p. 51 |
The Quest for Sources | p. 54 |
From a Synopsis: Comparing the Synoptic Gospels | p. 56 |
From Q and the Gospel of Thomas to Sayings Gospels | p. 67 |
Q | p. 85 |
Is it a Gospel? | p. 85 |
Strata in Q | p. 90 |
The Community Responsible for Q | p. 92 |
Form Criticism | p. 96 |
The Shape and Function of Sayings and Stories | p. 96 |
Sayings Material | p. 98 |
Parables and Similitudes | p. 105 |
Miracle Stories | p. 114 |
The Passion Narrative | p. 119 |
The Gospel of Peter and the Development of the Passion Narrative | p. 121 |
Reading Mark's Gospel | p. 126 |
From Beginning to End: Mark's Narrative Shape | p. 127 |
Literary Features of Mark's Narrative | p. 133 |
Characters in the Gospel | p. 142 |
Jesus in Mark's Gospel | p. 149 |
The Community Implied in Mark's Narrative | p. 153 |
Endings Added to the Gospel of Mark | p. 156 |
A Secret Version of Mark? | p. 158 |
Reading Matthew's Gospel | p. 164 |
From Beginning to End: Matthew's Narrative Shape | p. 166 |
Literary Features in Matthew's Narrative | p. 176 |
Characters in the Gospel | p. 181 |
Jesus in Matthew's Gospel | p. 189 |
The Community Implied in Matthew's Narrative | p. 193 |
Jewish Christian Gospel Traditions | p. 197 |
Reading Luke's Gospel | p. 202 |
From Beginning to End: Luke's Narrative Shape | p. 204 |
Literary Features of Luke's Narrative | p. 213 |
Characters in the Gospel | p. 221 |
Jesus in Luke's Gospel | p. 232 |
The Community Implied in Luke's Narrative | p. 240 |
Mary Traditions and Other Infancy Gospels | p. 244 |
The Reception and Revision of the Gospel of Luke | p. 250 |
Gospels from the Second and Third Centuries | p. 254 |
A Mixture of Traditions: Oral and Written | p. 256 |
Apocryphal Gospels and Reading the Synoptics | p. 262 |
Gnostic ôGospelsö from the Second and Third Centuries | p. 268 |
The Gospel of Judas | p. 278 |
P. Berol. 22220: The ôGospel of the Saviorö | p. 281 |
The Question of Genre Revisited | p. 287 |
Index of modern authors | p. 294 |
Index of subjects | p. 296 |
Index of ancient sources | p. 300 |
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