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The accounts of Jesus in the four gospels of the New Testament all have the characteristics of narratives of a life story, and large parts of the Old Testament develop as chains of stereotyped life stories and heroic narratives of saviours, kings and prophets. Through 14 essays this volume brings two themes together: the relation between the development of the biographical genre in antiquity and the biblical books on the one hand, and the existence and nature of conceptions of a saviour figure in the biblical books and their surroundings on the other. It is the combination of these themes that is expressed in the coined word, “biographization”, which appears in the title of the book. While the common word “biographize” means the writing down of a historical life story which has occurred, “biographization” indicates that the book is operating with an understanding of the Scriptures and their saviour figure as narrative constructs and that the pursuit is for the literary, scriptural interpretative, reception historical, theological and other processes which underlie the elaboration of salvation figures in the biographical form.
The majority of the authors of the book are employed at the Biblical Studies Section at the University of Copenhagen:
Karen Marie Sø Leth-Nissen, Søren Holst, Karen Martens, Ingrid Hjelm, Bodil Ejrnæs, Niels Peter Lemche, Thomas L. Thompson, Mogens Müller, Lone Fatum, Troes Engberg-Pedersen, Geert Hallbäck, Jesper Tang Nielsen, Henrik Tronier, Christina Petterson.
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