Biographies

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The gospels are generally considered their own class of writing style, since the contain biographical information, parables, allegory, etc.
 
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Are the gospels considered biographies of Christ ?
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A scholar named V.K. Robbins has tried to demonstrate that Luke meets the criteria necessary to count as a member of the Roman genre of biography. This is in his document “Prefaces in Greco-Roman Biography and Luke-Acts.” Some other scholars disagree, so I guess the safest thing to say is that there is no consensus.
 
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