Although I think it would be improper to use the term fiction for the gospels, there are scholars who argue that in focusing on their historical veracity (i.e. the historical Jesus) we are missing issues of genre. Thomas L. Thompson, for example, argues that we should understand the gospels in the context of ANE traditions of a divinely appointed kings that were supposed to set the world right again. And Dennis R. MacDonald argues that we miss a lot by not understanding that for those who read and heard read the gospels, they were understanding them in the context of Homer, Virgil, and Euripides.