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The Birth of the Messiah; A new updated edition

A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke

Raymond E Brown author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Yale University Press

Published:18th May '99

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The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the  Nativity, updated to include the latest research--a  classic by a renowned scholar, hailed as  "masterly" and "definitive" in the  original edition.

"A line-by-line exegesis . . . that not only synthesizes a generation of modern scholarship but also provides a coherent and compelling explanation of what the stories of Christ's birth were meant to convey. . . . Brown manages to rescue the Christmas story from both the contempt of experts and the sentimentality of naive laymen. . . . Ordinary Christians can thank this priestly scholar for helping them to put the adult Christ back into Christmas."—Newsweek

ISBN: 9780300140088

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 998g

752 pages