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From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the New Testament with ease and clarity. He walks readers book-by-book through the basic content and issues of the New Testament. While a wealth of information is contained in these pages, the work’s most impressive features are the basic summaries of each book, a...

This Chapter deals with two interrelated problems. There is a serious debate about the extent to which the literary genre of a Gospel is unique to Christianity or is a modification of the pattern of Jewish lives of the prophets or of Pagan biographies.1 The answer in part depends on the relationship of the Gospels to Jesus: Does the earliest canonical Gospel derive from memories of what Jesus did and said in his lifetime, or is it mostly
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