The First Biography of Jesus Allene Symons Red Phoenix Rising

Red Phoenix Rising

imagines other possibilities

'– from the Foreword by Daniel A

and other mental health clinicians who seek to learn the modes

In volume 6 of his seven-volume biography of Rudolf Steiner

The First Biography of Jesus Allene Symons Red Phoenix RisingWhat difference does it make to identify Mark's gospel as an ancient biography? Reading the gospels as ancient biographies makes a profound difference to the way that we interpret them. Biography immortalizes the memory of the subject, creating a literary monument to the person's life and teaching. Yet it is also a bid to legitimize a specific view of that figure and to position an author and his audience as appropriate "gatekeepers" of that memory.