Chapters 10-24 (v. 2) (Anchor Bible S.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385155425 ISBN 13: 9780385155427

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1985

Synopsis

A new translation of the New Testament Gospel is accompanied by detailed comments on the historical background and translational considerations of the text

About this title

About the Author:

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, Father Fitzmyer has written the Anchor Bible commentary on Romans, as well as books and numerous articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran.

From the Inside Flap:

spel According to Luke X-XXIV is Volume 28A in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha.  This is the conclusion of Joseph A. Fitzmyer's two-volume study of Luke.

Included here is Fitzmyer's work on chapter 10, in which Jesus continues his journey to Jerusalem, through chapter 24, his Resurrection and appearances.  The translation relies on the commentator's familiarity with the Greek and Semitic languages, while the exegesis commands a thorough knowledge of the vast cultural, technical, and linguistic information he has gathered from an international selection of Lucan literature.  Each of the fifteen chapters here is studied and discussed in respect to the Gospel as a whole, Acts, and the Old Testament.  The two indices refer to both volumes on Luke.

In "joining the spirit to the letter" and scholarship to faith, Joseph A. Fitzmyer has produced a worthy succe

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0385155425
• ISBN 13: 9780385155427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 848
• Editor: Fitzmyer SJ Joseph A.