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A Literary Guide to the Life of Christ in Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts: How the Synoptic Evangelists Tell the Story of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Literary Guide to the Life of Christ in Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts is a detailed study of the synoptic gospels. Warren Gage and Steven Carpenter examine topics such as Matthew’s call, Jesus’ miracles, deltaform patterning, literary structure, and Luke’s use of prophetic echoes in the life of Jesus. These respected scholars also advocate acceptance of the longer ending of Mark’s gospel. This...

Peter Leithart has assembled the strongest case for an overarching Israel typology. He notes that the sequence of events in Matthew 1–7 mimics the sequence of the Pentateuch, and while he agrees that in these early chapters, the typological thread of a Moses typology is the strongest, yet even here he argues that Jesus is as much Israel as Moses.20 Herod’s pharaonic-like threat to male infants compares Jesus to Moses, but the flight out of Israel to Egypt fulfilling Hos 11:1 mingles in the image
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