The Birth of the Messiah (new upd. ed.)

A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and
Luke.
Over his illustrious career, Raymond E. Brown was internationally regarded as a
dean of New Testament scholars. He was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, received
over thirty honorary degrees from Catholic and Protestant universities
worldwide, and was elected a (Corresponding) Fellow of the British Academy and
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to serving
as president of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical
Association, and the Society of New Testament Studies, two popes appointed
Father Brown as the sole American on the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
Some of the best known of his more than thirty-five books on the Bible are
three volumes in the Anchor Bible series on the Gospel and Epistles of John, as
well as the Anchor Bible Reference Library volumes The Birth of the Messiah,
The Death of the Messiah, and An Introduction to the New Testament, winner of
the 1998 Catholic Press Association Award for Biblical Studies. Father Brown's
untimely death on August 8, 1998, saddened all who knew him.
'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
Series: Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library.
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