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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...

Let me express in one clause (with no pretension that it is elegantly enunciated or philosophically profound) the primary aim of this book: to explain in detail what the evangelists intended and conveyed to their audiences by their narratives of the passion and death of Jesus. Examining phrase by phrase this statement of goal can serve to introduce the problems of the PN. Then we shall discuss the relationship of this statement to issues of history and theology.
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