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Matthew 1–7: A Commentary on Matthew 1–7 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The birth narrative, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, the beginnings of his Galilean ministry, the Sermon on the Mount are all brilliantly illumined by Ulrich Luz’s expert textual- and historical-critical analysis and theological commentary. Luz brings special attention to the subsequent history of Christian appropriation of Matthew in homiletical and artistic interpretation, and addresses...

Prayer in comparison with Jewish prayers? The question appears to bypass what is essential in the Lord’s Prayer. The Lord’s Prayer appears to be a Jewish prayer. a. The Lord’s Prayer was Aramaic, while most extant Jewish prayers are Hebrew. Since it never wanted to be an official synagogue prayer, however, the Aramaic language is not very unusual. Numerous private Jewish prayers are formulated in Aramaic,138 quite apart from the private prayers of the simple people that were not transmitted. One