The Origins of Paradoxography in the Gospels

The gospels are serving as foundational texts for the life of Jesus in the sense that they're establishing especially if you think about I would say Luke and John do this for sure mark not so much but there's kind of an ideal Israel presented in Matthew. The other genre that I'm increasingly interested in is paradoxography which was a kind of literature that existed before the first century but became increasingly popular in the imperial period. Jessica Lightfoot wrote a book on this that I'm actually reading right now to bring it into my monograph I'm writing right now. So those characteristics those I think key characteristics of paradoxography get repeated in the gospels sort of in the aggregate.