RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
March 13, 2014 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2014 at 11:37 am by discipulus.)
(March 13, 2014 at 11:24 am)Fromper Wrote:(March 13, 2014 at 10:44 am)discipulus Wrote: I have been contemplating having a discussion on ancient bioi.
Anyone here knowledgeable on that particular genre? I find them quite fascinating.
So I plugged the word "bioi" into both Wikipedia and dictionary.com, and I still don't know what you're talking about. Probably best to start a new thread, since I doubt it's a direct answer to the stuff in this one.
bioi is the plural of bios which is latin for "life". Thus bioi would be "lives" as in "The Parallel Lives" by Plutarch which were biographies of important persons in the ancient world. Tacitus and Lucian, among others also wrote such biographies...
(March 13, 2014 at 11:31 am)Deidre32 Wrote: Adding to my comment above, I don't consider the Gospels to be ancient "biographies." (but some do)
And all such writings dealing with the Gospels, outside of the Bible, I feel that same way.
Just my opinion, fwiw.
I consider them to be writings best classified as Graeco-Roman "lives".
We should debate the issue some day.
