The Gospels as Stories: A Narrative Approach to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Popular writer and teacher Jeannine Brown shows how a narrative approach illuminates each of the Gospels, helping readers see the overarching stories. This book offers a corrective to tendencies to read the Gospels piecemeal, one story at a time. It is filled with numerous examples and visual aids that show how narrative criticism brings the text to life, making it an ideal supplementary textbook for courses on the Gospels. Readers will gain hands-on tools and perspectives to interpret the Gospels as whole stories.

Jeannine K. Brown (PhD, Luther Seminary) is the David Price Professor of Biblical and Theological Foundations at Bethel Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of numerous books, including Scripture as Communication, The Gospels as Stories, Embedded Genres in the New Testament, two commentaries on Matthew, and a commentary on Philippians. She is a coeditor of the revised Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels and has served as a translation consultant for the New International Version, Common English Bible, and New Century Version.