The place of the Gospels in the general history of literature - Schmidt, Karl Ludwig, 1891- (Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2002)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc