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Luke 3: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 19:28–24:53 is unavailable, but you can change that!

François Bovon’s commentary on the Gospel of Luke is justly renowned for its combination of judicious historical and literary treatment of the Evangelist’s context and for its theological sensitivity, informed by the wealth of the Christian interpretative tradition. Luke is clearly writing history in the manner of his Hellenistic and Jewish contemporaries, but Bovon insists he remains as well “a...

and the pressing of the grapes by the winegrowers with bare feet.71 But he does not forget the abused servants—the prophets and Israel’s other faithful such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, and especially Naboth.72 Cyril of Alexandria stresses other aspects of the parable (Serm. Luc. 134).73 In addition to the judgments against Israel and its leaders, whom unfortunately almost all ancient Christian authors associated with the winegrowers,74 the bishop of Alexandria is interested in the figure of the master of
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