Amateur Exegesis – Episode 3: Origin Stories, part 2

Texts discussed: Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2

Recommended Reading

Raymond Brown, The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (Doubleday, 1993).
L. Michael White, Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite (HarperOne, 2010), 226-256.

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