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In this two volume commentary on the Gospel According to Luke Joseph A. Fitzmyer builds on the exhaustive introduction, definitive new translation, and extensive notes. Fitzmyer demonstrates Luke’s unique literary and linguistic features, its relation to the other Gospels and the book of Acts, and its distinctive theological slant are discussed in detail by the author. In his exposition of Luke, Fitzmyer helps modern-day Christians hear the Good News afresh and understand it like never before.
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Joseph A. Fitzmyer is a Jesuit priest and professor emeritus at the Catholic University of America. A past president of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association, and coeditor of The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Fitzmyer has written The Aramaic Inscriptions of Sefire and The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave 1 (1Q20): A Commentary, available from Logos in the Northwest Semitic Collection (7 vols.), and A Manual of Palestinian Aramaic Texts.