The Death of the Messiah vol. 1

From Gethsemane to the Grave. A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in
the Four Gospels.Over his illustrious career, Raymond E.
Brown was internationally regarded as a dean of New Testament scholars. He
was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union
Theological Seminary in New York City, received over thirty honorary degrees
from Catholic and Protestant universities worldwide, and was elected a
(Corresponding) Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to serving as president of the
Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the
Society of New Testament Studies, two popes appointed Father Brown as the sole
American on the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Some of the best known of his
more than thirty-five books on the Bible are three volumes in the Anchor Bible
series on the Gospel and Epistles of John, as well as the Anchor Bible
Reference Library volumes The Birth of the Messiah, The Death of the Messiah,
and An Introduction to the New Testament, winner of the 1998 Catholic Press
Association Award for Biblical Studies. Father BrownÉs untimely death on August
8, 1998, saddened all who knew him. (= 0385494483 /
9780385494489)'Breathtaking! Raymond E. Brown's The Death of the
Messiah crowns two millennia of Christian scholarship pondering the 'scandal of
the crucifixion.' Brown has once again demonstrated his position as Father,
Rabbi and teacher to us all.' - Burton L. Visotzky, Jewish Theological
Seminary of AmericaSeries: Anchor Yale Bible Reference
Library.Recommended € 38,90