Brown ( The Birth of the Messiah , Doubleday, 1993, among many others) presents a detailed explanation of what the four evangelists "intended and conveyed" with their narratives of the passion and death of Jesus and "translates" the messages for modern readers. He assembles the four Gospel accounts into a unified story but maintains the distinctiveness of each account in the commentary. Brown has succeeded in producing a near oxymoron: a thorough survey of a huge mass of relevant scholarly literature that is accessible to the educated lay reader. Greek is transliterated and translated, procedures and terms are clearly explained, and the entire story is presented as a drama in four acts. While the book can be pleasurably read from start to finish, the organization and the indexes (not seen) make these volumes an easily used reference work. A required purchase for any serious New Testament collection.
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