New Testament
Parallel Lives of Jesus: A Guide to the Four Gospels, by Edward Adams. Introductions to the Gospels most often underscore the individual personality of each Gospel and leave aside questions of the Gospels’ similarity. Parallel Lives of Jesus achieves both with economy and clarity. After a brief historical introduction to the formation of the Gospels, Adams draws on narrative studies of film and novels to illumine the task of reading the Gospels as story.