TY - BOOK AU - Schmidt,Karl Ludwig TI - The place of the Gospels in the general history of literature SN - 1570034303 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BS2555.52 .S413 2002 U1 - 226/.066 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Columbia, S.C. PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Bible KW - Gospels KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 ER -