The Birth of the Messiah
by Raymond Brown
The only full-length scholarly commentary on the infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke.
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“For somebody who has grown up listening to the Christmas stories, or has made the effort to read the Gospel stories of Jesus’s birth in Matthew and Luke, but has questions about any of the particular things that are said, questions of historicity, all of that can be found in Brown’s book.” Read more...
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