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The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In some ways the narratives of Jesus’ birth and infancy are the last frontiers to be crossed in the critical approach to the Gospels. For some, the stories of Jesus’ birth are given dubious historical value. For others, the popular character of these narratives—the exotic magi, birth star, angelic messengers, and so on—renders them as legends unworthy to be a vehicle of the pure Gospel message....

problems. But I am primarily interested in the role these infancy narratives had in the early Christian understanding of Jesus. By treating the two infancy narratives within the same volume, I hope to point out their common tendencies and emphases. By giving them separate treatments (the volume is divided into Book One and Book Two), I hope to show how each fits into the theology of its respective Gospel, and thus offer some reasons for differences between the infancy narratives. It is the central
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