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Closer to its release date, I will be blogging about a wonderful forthcoming book by Andrew Lincoln that deals spectacularly well with this topic: Born of a Virgin?: Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition, and Theology<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>. I expect it to be for our generation what Raymond Brown\u2019s The Birth of the Messiah<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em> was for the previous one.<\/p>\n

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