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A quiet revolution has taken place in scholarly understanding of Gospel genre since the publication of Richard Burridge's What are the Gospels? in 1992, reversing the earlier consensus that the canonical Gospels should not be considered to be biographies. Burridge's research has been widely accepted and has produced a new consensus, that the Gospels are a species of ancient biography (βίος). This article: (i) lays out the former consensus and demonstrates its widespread acceptance; (ii) outlines the key arguments of Burridge's research and the contribution he made; (iii) provides evidence of the shift in the scholarly consensus to Burridge's view that the Gospels are ancient biographies; (iv) maps discussion of genre in recent Gospel commentaries; and (v) suggests further work that is opened up by the new consensus, notably in fine-tuning the identification of Gospel genre.

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