Most scholars treat the gospels as their own independent literary genre which ultimately derives from the work of the author of Mark - a combination of biography, aretology, and hagiography among other things. Some, though, argue there is much more going on than is initially understood, and one recent line of research has involved tracing much in Mark to the influence of the Greek epics of Homer.
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