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The Death of the Messiah, Volumes 1 & 2: From Gethsemane to the Grave: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Passion Narrative proceeds from arrest through trial to condemnation, execution, and burial. In each Gospel, it records the longest consecutive action of Jesus. It has captured the attention and imagination of dramatists and artists, and it has inspired the poetry and music of the church for two thousand years. Alongside “born of the Virgin Mary,” the other phrase that made its way into the...

the Herodian kings of the Palestine area and the Roman prefect of Judea, as well as the interplay between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. I have accepted the likely existence of history and tradition behind the heavily scripturally reflective, kerygmatically oriented, and theologically organized PNs of the Gospels, but have also acknowledged that there are severe limitations imposed by method and matter in our ability to acquire certitude
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