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.

waters cover the sea. (And how do the waters cover the sea? They are the sea.) The passage from Romans is a hangover from the old Bible Sunday readings (see 15:4 in particular), but it happily echoes Isaiah’s theme anyway. Paul swaps the prophet’s animals for humans: instead of wolves and lambs, Jews and Gentiles are brought together in harmony. All is based on the work of the Messiah, who has fulfilled the promises to Israel (v. 8) precisely in order that the whole world might now glorify God for

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