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: ''This article is about the texts of the Gospels. For information about the message of the good news itself, see [[Gospel]].''
'''Gospels''' are a genre of ancient literature concerning the life of Jesus. The word derives from the Old English word for "[[gospel|good news]]," a translation of the Greek word ε�?αγγέλιον ευαγγέλιον (euangelionevangelion). This refers to the "good news" being told, that [[Jesus]] has redeemed a fallen world. Each of the books reveals, by preaching and reinterpretation, the story of Jesus Christ's life, the good news about Christ's life and presence. The word gospel can also have a narrower meaning, especially when used by evangelical Christians, to mean the specific actions of Christ that are necessary for salvation.
The use of ''gospel'' (as its Greek equivalent) to denote a particular genre of writing dates back to the 2nd century. It was clearly used to denote a genre in [[Justin Martyr]] (c. 155) and more ambiguously so earlier in [[Ignatius of Antioch]] (c. 117).
:John: c. 90–110. Brown does not give a consensus view for John, but these are dates as propounded by C K Barrett, among others. The majority view is that it was written in stages, so there was no one date of composition.
The general consensus among biblical scholars is that all four canonical Gospels were originally written in Greek, the ''lingua franca'' of the Roman Orient. It has been suggested that Matthew may have originally been written in Aramaic, or that it was translated from Aramaic to Greek at a very early stage, probably by the author himself. Regardless, no [[Aramaic ]] original texts of the Gospels have ever been found, only translations from the Greek (see Peshitta).
==Non-canonical gospels==
==External links==
==SourcesSource==*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wikiw/index.php?title=Gospel &oldid=12113498 Wikipedia article: Gospel]
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