Twelve Months of Sundays: Reflections on Bible Readings, Year A (Biblia.com)

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N. T. Wright offers reflections on the Sunday readings in the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. This book brings together his widely read columns in the Church Times, and also contains new pieces, to cover all the Sundays and major festivals. Scholarship, history and insights into the world and language of the Bible are woven together to give a deeper understanding of the Word of the Lord.

inherit the world’: a line drawn from this point reaches right into Romans 8. And how would Abraham’s family attain their promised land? Through Exodus, marking them out as liberated slaves, God’s freedom-people (Genesis 15). The good news, then: Abraham is father not of one nation merely, but of all, all who now share his faith in God the life-giver. ‘The father of us all’: 4:16 (which doesn’t need a bracket, as some versions think) gives the climactic answer to the question of verse 1. With this,

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