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The Hypothesis of the Gospels

by Ian N. Mills

  • Hardback
  • 206 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • 14.7 x 22.3 x 2.1 cm

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The gospels were not the only books in antiquity to retell the same story. Ancient readers had their own language for describing works that retread the same narrative ground. Different versions of a story were imagined as sharing a narrative core, called a hypothesis. Early Christian readers adopted this conceptual model in order to describe gospel literature, legitimize its pluriformity, and limit its diversity. Even before the term hypothesis appeared explicitly, however, readers imagined gospels in roughly the same way. Christians did not radically reimagine the literary character of gospels at the end of the second century, when hypothesis language first appeared. Rather, the components of this model are already present in the earliest evidence for the reception of gospels. The standard model for thinking about pluriform narrative traditions in Hellenistic literary culture shaped the production and interpretation of gospel literature from the very beginning.

  • Title

    The Hypothesis of the Gospels

  • Author

    Ian N. Mills

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press

  • Published

    November 2025

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    206

  • Dimensions

    14.7 x 22.3 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506497068

  • ISBN-10

    1506497063

  • Eden Code

    7212274