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The Lectionary Commentary, Volume 3: The Gospels (The Third Readings) is unavailable, but you can change that!

An unprecedented, monumental work, the three-volume Lectionary Commentary offers superb exegetical essays on 513 biblical texts from the Revised Common Lectionary spanning the three-year liturgical cycle. The present volume, The Third Readings: The Gospels, covers the lectionary readings from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Unique to this volume is an excellent essay by C. Clifton Black on...

2:22). Like his namesake of long before (Gen. 37–50), Joseph is an astute listener to dreams and also on the verge of a sojourn in Egypt. His righteousness consists not only of a moral commitment to virtue, but even more in his responsiveness to the leading of God (Thomas G. Long, Matthew [Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997], p. 20). The angel informs Joseph that Herod (no longer King Herod in the text since the true King of the Jews has now been born and worshiped by the Magi) will soon seek
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