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The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible in five volumes provides the best quality in contemporary biblical scholarship on a comprehensive range of topics, including the Old and New Testaments, the Deuterocanonical books, and contextual studies of the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman worlds, and their literatures. The dictionary contains maps, charts, and illustrations to further clarify...

In Matthew’s version, traces of liturgical elaboration can be discerned in the resonant address to God as “Our Father who is in the heavens,” in the cosmic space being created by the phrases “as in heaven, so on earth,” and in the formal parallelism between three divine petitions and three human petitions. Also noteworthy is Matthew’s didactic emphasis on human forgiveness, which is presented as a measure by which (“as”) divine forgiveness shall be granted and is reinforced by the conditional
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