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Article: Lifting the Burden: Reading Matthew's Gospel in the Church Today.(Book Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- December 1, 2005
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LIFTING THE BURDEN: READING MATTHEW'S GOSPEL IN THE CHURCH TODAY. By Brendan Byrne. Collegeville: Liturgical, 2004. Pp. xiii + 249. $19.95.
Commentaries on individual books of the Bible continue to flourish. In the past, critical commentaries, drawing on form-critical studies, focused primarily on the small units that comprise a biblical writing. Today scholars attend more carefully to the larger context within which a particular unit appears. The Gospels especially are best approached as extended narratives that unfold gradually to reveal their unique understanding of who Jesus is and what it means to be his disciple. To this end, Byrne's commentary on Matthew ...