Continued from Triggermanblog   Name Dropping Oftentimes, when reading the gospels, we tend to misread them, not simply in terms of order, but it terms of genre, as Wilson points out in his closing, The gospels are not biographies exactly, but are rather a genre to themselves. They are, well, gospels. But these gospels certainly have strong biographical elements, and we have four of them, side-by-side. Three of them, the synoptic gospels, have many parallels, and one, the gospel of John, stands apart. Only a few episodes from the Lord’s life are in all four gospels… It’s true, the gospels are not pure biographies but they are nonetheless biographical even if they refuse to be pigeon-holed into any one particular genre.[ 3 ] The problem historically has been that there appears to be, “ an unwillingness to respect the silence and gaps of the biblical narratives .”[ 4 ] Readers of Scripture must be willing to accept the authors’ decisions and not read what we want into the text. W...