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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This short book on Jesus’ infancy narratives which I have been promising to write for some time is at last ready to be presented to the reader. It is not a third volume but a kind of small “antechamber” to the two earlier volumes on the figure and the message of Jesus of Nazareth. I have set out here in dialogue with exegetes past and present to interpret what Matthew and Luke say about Jesus’ infancy at the beginning of their Gospels. I am convinced that good exegesis involves two stages. Firstly one has to ask what the respective authors intended to convey through their text in their own day-the histori- cal component of exegesis. Bulit is not sufficient to leave the text in the past and thus relegate it to history. The second question posed by good exegesis must be: is what I read here true? Does it concern me? If so how? With a text like the Bible whose ultimate and fundamental author according to our faith is God himself the question regarding the here and now of things past is undeniably included in the task of exegesis. The seriousness of the historical quest is in no way diminished by this: on the contrary it is enhanced. (LL)