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The place of the Gospels in the general history of literature / Karl Ludwig Schmidt ; translated by Byron R. McCane ; with an introduction by John Riches.
Van Pelt Library BS2555.52 .S413 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt, Karl Ludwig, 1891-1956.
- Standardized Title:
- Stellung der Evangelien in der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 88 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 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 between high literature and low 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1570034303
- OCLC:
- 50333991
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