Gospels - different audiences, but built on Paul?

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calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-book1mar01,0,1759925.story

BOOK REVIEW
How Jesus’ story was writ
‘What the Gospels Meant’ by Garry Wills
By John D. Spalding, Special to The Times

Is it really possible to tell with this degree of particularity that the Gospels were written for particular audiences?

And were the Gospels all built on Paul to the extent claimed?

("Paul’s chief (some would say, sole) interest in Jesus was that his death and Resurrection proved him to be the Messiah. “This is the basic Announcement (Kerygma) that would be the test of orthodoxy,” Wills writes. “It is the nucleus from which the Gospels were built up.” )

 

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Is it really possible to tell with this degree of particularity that the Gospels were written for particular audiences?

N.T. scholars pretty much agree (based on a wide range of clues in the text) that Mark was written primarily for an audience of Greek-speaking residents of the Roman Empire, that Luke wrote to Greek Christians, and Matthew to Jews.

And were the Gospels all built on Paul to the extent claimed?

Parts probably were. But since Paul is almost totally consumed with the death and resurrection and never mentions anything Jesus did or taught, there is a lot which does not come from Paul.