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The place of the Gospels in the general history of literature /

Schmidt, Karl Ludwig, 1891-

The place of the Gospels in the general history of literature / Karl Ludwig Schmidt ; translated by Byron R. McCane ; with an introduction by John Riches. - Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2002. - xxxiii, 88 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Greek biographical literature -- Judaism and Hellenism -- Low literature from various periods and peoples -- Analogy, not genealogy -- The literary development of the non-canonical Acts, (literary) lives of saints and martyr-acts -- Gospels and biography -- The boundary of literature -- Simple cases of folk-biography -- Methodology -- The multiformity of the framework of the story of Jesus -- German folk-books -- Legends of the saints -- Ancient Christian monastic stories -- The Franciscan legends -- Goethe and the legends of St. Rochus -- The cultic character of legends of saints, Apophthegmata Patrum, and the Gospels.

1570034303 (cloth : alk. paper)

2002012310


Bible.--Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

BS2555.52 / .S413 2002

226/.066

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