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Matthew: A Commentary, Volume 1: The Christbook, Matthew 1–12 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Recognized as a masterly commentary when it first appeared, Frederick Dale Bruner’s study of Matthew is now available as a greatly revised and expanded two-volume work—the result of seven years of careful refinement, enrichment, and updating. Through this commentary, crafted especially for teachers, pastors, and Bible students, Bruner aims “to help God’s people love what Matthew’s Gospel says.”...

Hare, 7, too, suggests “overlapping meanings” for the title of Matt 1:1 (short, medium, and long) and wonders if the verse may suggest a kind of “Genesis II: the Sequel.” Matthew’s very first words—“Book of Genesis”—may even project an arc that extends to the Gospel’s very final words—“the consummation of the age,” Matt 28:20c, so that the Gospel’s trajectory is from Genesis to consummation; see Keener, 1999, 77n.17. 1:1a “The book of the Genesis.” Matthew’s first two Greek words say what they sound
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