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  • From: "George Young" <gwyoung AT morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
  • To: "Kata Markon" <gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Gospel Creation
  • Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:05:09 -0330


Hudson Burton wrote;

> ...Luke and John go to great pains to establish their gospels as factual
> (Luke i.1) and as being "real" (Jn xix.35). They are clearly
> concerned that the gospel(s) might be read as nothing more than myth.

This presumes that a first century audience might 'naturally' have read the
gospel narratives as 'myth.' Do Luke and John betray a covert anxiety to
ward off what the reading conventions of their gospels might naturally
invoke?

G. Young






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