BIBLICAL / CONTEMPORARY BIOGRAPHY

Contemporary biographies, often straightforward and accessible, focus on living or recently deceased subjects, and can be either authorized or unauthorized. Historical biographies delve into the lives of notable figures from the past, emphasizing their contributions within the context of their times.

‘ A Biblical biography might be defined as ‘an account of the life of any historical person from the Old or New Testament‘. Of the more than 2,500 biography titles listed by Eden.co.uk, only about 400 are classified as Biblical biographies.