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Ancient Greco-Roman Story-Telling and the Gospels

Risen Jesus — Mike Licona

Ancient Greco-Roman Story-Telling and the Gospels

July 29, 2024
Risen Jesus
Risen JesusMike Licona

Do apparent contradictions in the gospels mean we can’t trust them as reliable sources of information about the person and life of Christ? Dr. Mike Licona tackles this important question by examining ancient Greco-Roman biography, the genre to which the gospels belong, and the conventions used by authors of the time when writing them. He explains that what modern readers might be tempted to call errors are actually the result of legitimate compositional devices,  methods of story-telling, common to that era that were accepted as truthful and trustworthy.

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