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1.2.1.1
Research Updates:
Bovon, François. Luke the Theologian: Thirty-Three Years of Research (1950-1983). Translated by Ken McKinney. Princeton Theological Monograph Series, ed. Dikran Y. Hadidan, no. 12. Allison Park, Pa.: Pickwick Publications, 1987.

Braumann, Georg. Das Lukas-Evangelium: Die Redaktions- und Kompositionsgeschichtliche Forschung. Wege der Forschung, vol. 280. Darmstadt: Wisenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1974.

Brown, Raymond E.  "Gospel Infancy Narrative Research from 1976 to 1986: Part I (Matthew)."  The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 48 (July, 1986) , 468-83. 

Brown, Raymond E.  "Gospel Infancy Narrative Research from 1976 to 1986: Part II (Luke)."  The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 48 (October, 1986) , 660-80. 

Kodell, Jerome.  “The Theology of Luke in Recent Study.” Biblical Theology Bulletin. 1 (1971): 115-44.

Marshall, I. Howard.  "The Present State of Lucan Studies." Themelios 14 (Jan/Feb, 1989) : 52-56. 

Radl, Walter. Der Lukas-Evangelium. Erträge der Forschung, vol. 261. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1988.

Sabourin, Leopold. "Recent Views on Luke's Infancy Narratives." Religious Studies Bulletin 1, no. 1 (January 1981): 18-25.

Wilson, Robert R. “The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research.” Journal of Biblical Literature 94 (1975): 168-89.

 

1.2.1.2
Specialized Treatments

Audet, Jean-Paul. “Autour de la théologie de Luc I-II.” Sciences Ecclésiastiques 11 (1959): 409-18.

Aune, David E.  The New Testament in Its Literary Environment. Library of Early Christianity, ed. Wayne A. Meeks.  Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1987.

Aune, David E. "The Problem of the Genre of the Gospels: A Critique of C. H. Talbert's What is a Gospel?."  In Gospe Perspectives: Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels, Vol. II.  Edited by R. T. France and David Wenham.  Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1981, 9-60.

Balch, David L.  "The Genre of Luke-Acts: Individual Biography, Adventure Novel, or Political History?"  Southwestern Journal of Theology 33 (Fall, 1990) , 5-19.

Benoit, P. “L’enfance de Jean-Baptiste selon Luc I.” New Testament Studies 3 (1956-57): 169-94.

Boslooper, Thomas.  "Jesus' Virgin Birth and Non-Christian "Parallels"." Religion in Life 26 (Winter, 1956-57) , 87-97.

Bourke, Myles M.  "The Literary Genus of Matthew 1-2." The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 22 (April, 1960) , 160-75.

Brinkmann, B. "Die Jungfrauengeburt und das Lukasevangelium." Biblica 34, no. 3 (1953): 327-32.

Brown, Raymond E.  "Luke's Method in the Annunciation Narrative of Chapter One."  In Perspectives on Luke-Acts.  Edited by Charles H. Talbert.  Danville, Virginia: Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, 1978.

Bultmann, R. The History of the Synoptic Tradition. J. Marsh, trans. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Burrows, Eric.  "The Gospel of the Infancy: The Form of Luke Chapters 1 and 2."  Chap.  in The Gospel of the Infancy and Other Biblical Essays, ed. Edmund F. Sutcliffe.  The Bellarmine Series VI, ed. Edmund F. Sutcliffe.  London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1940.

Cadbury, Henry J. The Making of Luke-Acts. Rev. ed. London: SPCK, 1958.

Cadbury, H. J.  The Style and Literary Method of Luke. Harvard Theological Studies VI, eds. George F, Moore, James H. Ropes, and Kirsopp Lake.  Harvard University Press, 1920.

Charlesworth, James H.  ed.   The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2: Expansions of the "Old Testament" and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1985.

Cheyne, T. K.  Bible Problems and the New Material for Their Solution: A Plea for Thoroughness of Investigation Addressed to Churchmen and Scholars.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904.

Clemen, Carl.  Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources.  Translated by Robert G. Nisbet.  Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1912.

Corbishley, T. “Quirinius and the Census: A Re-study of the Evidence.” Klio 29 (1936): 81-93.

Crouse, R. D.  "St. Augustine's De Trinitate : Philosophic Method."  In Studia Patristica, Vol. 16, Part II, ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone.  Berlin: Akademie - Verlag, 1985.

Cullmann, Oscar.  "Infancy Gospels."  In New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. I: Gospels and Related Writings.  Edited by Wilhelm Schneelmelcher.  Translated and edited by R. Mcl. Wilson.  Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1990; revised, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991.

Daniélou, Jean. The Infancy Narratives. New York: Herder & Herder, 1968.

Davis, C. T., III. “The Literary Structure of Luke 1-2.” In Art and Meaning: Rhetoric in Biblical Literature, ed. David J. A. Clines, David M. Gunn, and Alan J. Hauser, 215-29. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, no. 19. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1982.

Davis, Charles.  "Joseph B. Tyson's Proposal: "The Sources of Luke . . . " - A Response and Counter-Proposal."  In Society of Biblical Literature 1976 Seminar Papers.  Edited by George MacRae.  Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1976.

De Jonge, M. “The Use of the Word ‘Anointed’ in the Time of Jesus.” Novum Testamentum 8 (1966): 132-48.

Dibelius, Martin. Die urchristliche Überlieferung von Johannes dem Taufer. Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, no. 15. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1911.

Dio Cassius. Dio’s Roman History. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1953.

Drury, John. Tradition and Design in Luke’s Gospel: A Study in Early Christian Historiography. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1976.

Elliott, J. K. The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Farris, Stephen C.  "On Discerning Semitic Sources in Luke 1-2."  In Gospel Perspectives: Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels, vol, II.  Edited by R. T. France and David Wenham.  Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1981.

Farris, Stephen C. The Hymns of Luke’s Infancy Narratives: Their Origin, Meaning and Significance. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, ed. Bruce D. Chilton, no. 9. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985.

Fearghail, Feargus O. The Introduction to Luke-Acts: A Study of the Role of Lk 1,1-4,44 in the Composition of Luke’s Two-Volume Work. Analecta Biblica: Investigationes Scientificae in Res Biblicas, no. 126. Rome: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1991.

Flender, H. St. Luke: Theologian of Redemptive History. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1967.

France, R. T. “Scripture, Tradition and History in the Infancy Narratives of Matthew.” In Gospel Perspectives, vol. 2, Studies of History and Tradition in the Four Gospels, ed. R. T. France and David Wenham, 239-66. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1981.

Gaston, Lloyd.  "The Lucan Birth Narratives in Tradition and Redaction."  In Society of Biblical Literature 1976 Seminar Papers. Edited by George MacRae.  Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1976.

George, A. “Le parallèle entre Jean-Baptiste et Jésus en Luc 1-2.” In Mélanges Béda Rigaux, ed. A. Descamps and A. de Halleux, 147-71. Gembloux: Duculot, 1970.

Globe, Alexander. "Some Doctrinal Variants in Matthew 1 and Luke 2, and the Authority of the Neutral Text." The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 42, no. 1 (January 1980): 52-72.

Goulder, Michael D. The Evangelists’ Calendar: A Lectionary Explanation of the Development of Scripture. London: SPCK, 1978.

Goulder, Michael D.  Luke: A New Paradigm. Vol. 1. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, ed. David Hill, no. 20. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

Goulder, Michael D., and M. L. Sanderson. “St. Luke’s Genesis.” Journal of Theological Studies 8 (1957): 12-30.

Harnack, Adolph von.  Luke The Physician: The Author of the Third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles.  Second edition.  Translated by J. R. Wilkinson.  New Testament Studies I.  New York: Putnam's Sons, 1909.

Hayles, D. J. “The Roman Census and Jesus‘ Birth: Was Luke Correct?, Part 1: The Roman Census System.” Buried History 9 (1973): 113-32.

Hayles, D. J. “The Roman Census and Jesus‘ Birth: Was Luke Correct?, Part 2: Quirinius’ Career and a Census in Herod‘s Day.” Buried History 10 (1974): 16-31.

Hendrickx, Hermon. The Infancy Narratives. Rev. ed. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1984.

Higgins, A. J. B. “Sidelights on Christian Beginnings in the Graeco-Roman World.” Evangelical Quarterly 41 (1969): 197-206.

Hoehner, H. W. Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1977.

Iglesias, Salvador Muñoz. Los Cánticos del Evangelio de la Infancia según San Lukas. Madrid: Instituto Francisco Suárez, 1983.

Iglesias, Salvador Muñoz.  "Literary Genre of the Infancy Gospel in St. Matthew."  Theology Digest 9 (Winter, 1961) , 15-20.

Josephus. The Jewish War. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1943.

Josephus. Jewish Antiquities. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1943.

Laurentin, René. “Traces d’allusions étymologiques en Lc 1-2 (I).” Biblica 37 (1956): 435-56.

Laurentin, René. “Traces d’allusions étymologiques en Lc 1-2 (II).” Biblica 38 (1957): 1-23.

Laurentin, René. Structure et Théologie de Luc I-II. Paris: Gabalda, 1957.

Laurentin, René. The Truth of Christmas beyond the Myths: The Gospels of the infancy of Christ. Micahel J. Wrenn and associates, trans. Petersham, Massachusetts: St. Bede‘s Publications, 1986.

Legrand, Lucien. L'Annonce a Marie (Lc 1, 26-38): Une Apoca~lypse aux Origines de l'Évangile. Paris: Les Éditions de Cerf, 1981.

Loisy, Alfred.  Les Evangiles Synoptiques I.  Chez l'auteur; Ceffonds, Pres Montier-en-der (Haute-Marne), 1907.

Lyonnet, Stanislaus. “St. Luke’s Infancy Narrative.” In Word and Mystery: Biblical Essays on the Person and Mission of Christ, ed. Leo J. O’Donovan, 143-54. Glen Rock, N.J.: Newman Press, 1968.

MacNeill, H. L. “The Sitz im Leben of Luke 1:5-2:20.” Journal of Biblical Literature 65 (1946): 123-30.

Machen, J. G. The Virgin Birth. New York: Harper, 1930.

Mather, P. Boyd.  "The Search for the Living Text of the Lucan Infancy Narrative."  In The Living Text: Essays in Honor of Ernest W. Saunders, ed. Dennis E. Groh and Robert Jewett.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc., 1985.

Minear, Paul S.  "Luke's Use of the Birth Stories."  In Studies in Luke-Acts.  Edited by Leander E. Keck and J. Louis Martyn.  Festschrift honoring Paul Schubert, 1966; reprint, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.

Moessner, David P.  "And Once Again, What Sort of "Essence?": A Response to Charles Talbert."  Semeia 43 (1988) , 75-84.

Mulholland, Jr., M. Robert. "The Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke — Of History, Theology, and Literature." Biblical Archaeology Review 7, no. 2 (March/April 1981): 46-59.

Neirynck, Frans. L’Evangelie de Noël selon S. Luc. Paris: Pensée Catholique, 1960.

Oliver, H. H. "The Lucan Birth Stories and the Purpose of Luke-Acts." New Testament Studies 10, no. 2 (January 1964): 202-26.

Ramsay, W. M. The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament. 4th ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920.

Ruddick, C. T., Jr. “Birth Narratives in Genesis and Luke.” Novum Testamentum 12 (1970): 343-48.

Schaberg, Jane. The Illegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.

Schnackenburg, Rudolf. “Tempelfrömmigkeit.” In Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, ed. Josef Höfer and Karl Rahner, 9:1358-59. Freiburg: Herder, 1957-67.

Schürmann, Heinz. “Aufbau, Eigenart und Geshcichtswert der Vorgeschichte von Lukas   1-2.” Bibel und Kirche 21 (1966): 106-11.

Schurer, E. The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135). Revised edition, vol. 1. G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Black, eds. Edinburgh: Clark, 1973.

Sherwin-White, A. N. Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament. Sarum Lectures 1960-61. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963.

Songer, Harold S. “Luke’s Portrayal of the Origins of Jesus.” Review and Expositor 64 (1967): 453-63.

Stauffer, E. Jesus and His Story. D. M. Barton, trans. New York: Knopf, 1960.

Sterling, Gregory E.  Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephos, Luke-Acts and Apologetic HistoriographySupplements to Novum Testamentum, 64, executive editors D. P. Moessner and A. J. Malherbe.  New York: E. J. Brill, 1992.

Streeter, Burnett Hillman.  The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins Treating of The Manuscript Tradition, Sources, Authorship, & Dates, 7th edition.  First edition, 1924; fourth edition, revised, 1930; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1951.

Strauss, D. F. The Life of Jesus Critically Examined. G. Eliot, trans. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1972.

Sweet, Louis Mathews. The Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1906.

Tacitus. The Annals. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1943.

Talbert, Charles H.  What is a Gospel? The Genre of the Canonical Gospels.  Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.

Talbert, Charles H. Literary Patterns, Theological Themes, and the Genre of Luke-Acts. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, ed. Leander Keck, no. 20. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1974.

Talbert, Charles H. "Prophecies of Future Greatness: The Contribution of Greco-Roman Biographies to an Understanding of Luke 1:5-4:15."  In The Divine Helmsman: Studies on God's Control of Human Events, Presented to Lou H. Silberman.  Edited by James L. Crenshaw and Samuel Sandmel.  New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1980.

Talbert, Charles H. "Once Again: Gospel Genre."  Semeia 43 (1988) , 53-73.

Tannehill, R. C. The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts: A Literary Interpretation, vol. 1: The Gospel according to Luke. Foundation and Facets. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.

Tatum, W. B. “The Epoch of Israel: Luke I-II and the Theological Plan of Luke-Acts.” New Testament Studies 13 (1966-67): 184-95.

Tsuchia, H. “The History and the Fiction in the Birth Stories of Jesus--An Observation on the Thought of Luke the Evangelist.” Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute 1 (1975): 73-90.

Turner, Nigel. “The Relation of Luke I and II to Hebraic Sources and to the Rest of Luke-Acts.” New Testament Studies 2 (1955-56): 100-9.

Tyson, Joseph B. “The Birth Narratives and the Beginning of Luke’s Gospel.” Semeia 52 (1990): 103-20.

Tyson, Joseph B.  "The Sources of Luke: A Proposal for the Consultation on the Relationships of the Gospels."  In Society of Biblical Literature 1976 Seminar Papers.  Edited by George MacRae.  Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1976.

Tyson, Joseph B. "Source Criticism of the Gospel of Luke."  In Perspectives on Luke-Acts.  Edited by Charles H. Talbert.  Danville, Virginia: Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, 1978.

Vardaman, Jerry, and Edwin Yamauchi. Chronos, Kairos, Christos: Nativity and Chronological Studies Presented to Jack Finegan. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1989.

Vaughn, Curtis  "The Simeon Incident: An Interpretation of Luke 2:25-35."  In New Testament Studies: Essays in Honor of Ray Summers in His Sixty-Fifth Year, eds. Huber L. Drumwright and Curtis Vaughan.  Waco, Texas: Markham Press Fund, 1975.

Walker, William.  "Joseph B. Tyson's Proposal for the Consultation on the Relationship of the Gospels: A Response."  In Society of Biblical Literature 1976 Seminar Papers.  Edited by George MacRae.  Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1976.

Weiss, Bernhard. Die Quellen des Lukasevangeliums. Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1907.

Wilkinson, J. R. A Johannine Document in the First Chapters of St. Luke’s Gospel. London: Luzac, 1902.

Wink, Walter. John the Baptist in the Gospel Tradition. New Testament Studies Monograph Series, no. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968.

Wickings, H. F. "The Nativity Stories and Docetism." New Testament Studies 23, no. 4 (July 1977): 457-60.

Wilcox, Max.  "Luke 2,36-38: "Anna Bat Phanuel, of the Tribe of Asher, a Prophetess . . . : A Study in Midrash in Material Special to Luke."  In The Four Gospels 1992: Festschrift Frans Neirynck, vol. II, eds. F. Van Segbroeck, C. M. Tuckett, G. Van Belle, and J. Verheyden.  Leuven: University Press, 1992.

Winter, Paul. "The Cultural Background of the Narratives in Luke I and II: Part 1." The Jewish Quarterly Review 45, no. 2 (October 1954): 159-67.

Winter, Paul. "The Cultural Background of the Narratives in Luke I and II: Part 2." The Jewish Quarterly Review 45, no. 3 (Janu~ary 1955): 230-42.

Winter, Paul. “The Proto-Source of Luke I.” Novum Testamentum 1 (1956): 184-99.

Winter, Paul. “On Luke and Lukan Sources.” Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 47 (1956): 217-42.

Winter, Paul. “’Nazareth’ and ‘Jerusalem’ in Luke chs. I and II.” New Testament Studies 3 (1956-57), 136-42.

Winter, Paul. “On the Margin of Luke I, II.” Studia Theologica 12 (1958): 103-7.

Winter, Paul. “Lukanische Miszellen.” Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 49 (1958): 65-77.

Winter, Paul. “The Main Literary Problem of the Lucan Infancy Story.” Anglican Theological Review 40 (1958): 257-64.

Winter, Paul. "Some Observations on the Language in the Birth and Infancy Stories of the Third Gospel." New Testament Studies 1, no. 1 (September 1954): 111-21.

Wilckens, Ulrich.  "Interpreting Luke-Acts in a Period of Existentialist Theology,"  Studies in Luke-Acts.  Edited by Leander E. Keck and J. Louis Martyn.  Festschrift honoring Paul Schubert, 1966; reprint, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980.

Witherington, Ben, III. “Birth of Jesus.” In Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. Joel B. Green and Scot McKnight, 60-74. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1992.

Wrede, William.  "The Task and Method of 'New Testament Theology'."  In The Nature of New Testament Theology: The Contributions of William Wrede and Adolf Schlatter. Edited, translated and with an introduction by Robert Morgan.  Naperville, Illinois: Alec R. Allenson Inc., 1973.

Wright, A. The Literary Genre Midrash.Staten Island: Alba, 1967.

Zimmerman, H. “Evangelium des Lukas, Kap. 1 und 2.” Theologische Studien und Kritiken 76 (1903): 247-90.
 


1.2.1.2.1 Virgin Birth

Benson, G. P. "Virgin Birth, Virgin Conception." The Expository Times 98, no. 5 (February 1987): 139-40.

Boslooper, Thomas. "Jesus' Virgin Birth and Non-Christian 'Parallels'." Religion in Life 26, no. 1 (Winter 1956-57): 87-97.

Boslooper, Thomas. The Virgin Birth. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1962.

Bostock, Gerald. "Virgin Birth or Human Conception?" The Expository Times 97, no. 9 (June 1986): 260-63.

Bratcher, Robert G. "A Study of Isaiah 7:14: Its Meaning and Use in the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint and the Gospel of Matthew." The Bible Translator 9, no. 3 (July 1958): 97-126.

Brown, Raymond E. "Note: Luke's Description of the Virginal Conception." Theological Studies 35, no. 2 (March 1974): 360-62.

Brown, Raymond E.  "The Problem of the Virginal Conception of Jesus." Theological Studies 33, no. 1 (March 1972): 3-34.

Brown, Raymond E.  The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus. New York: Paulist Press, 1973.

Carnell, Edward John. "The Virgin Birth of Christ." Christianity Today 4, no. 5 (December 7, 1959): 9-10.

Clark, Alan C. "The Virgin Birth: A Theological Reappraisal." Theological Studies 34, no. 4 (December 1973): 576-93.

Cranfield, C. E. B. "Some Reflections on the Subject of the Virgin Birth." Scottish Journal of Theology 41, no. 2 (1988): 177-89.

Crim, Keith, ed. The International Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume. Nashville: Abingdon, 1976. S.v. "Virgin Birth," by Raymond E. Brown.

Dubarle, A. M. "La Conception Virginale et la Citation d'Is., VII, 14 dans l'Evangile de Matthieu." Revue Biblique 85, no. 3 (July 1978): 362-80.

Edwards, Douglas. The Virgin Birth in History and Faith. London: Faber & Faber LTD, 1943.

Elliott, George. "The Parthenogenetic Problem of Christiani~ty." The Methodist Review 107 (March-April 1924): 302-10.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. "The Virginal Conception of Jesus in the New Testament." Theological Studies 34, no. 4 (December 1973): 541-75.

Hollis, Michael. "Davidic Descent and the Virgin Birth." The Indian Journal of Theology 8, no. 2 (April-June 1959): 51-53.

Leaney, A. Robert C. "The Virgin Birth in Lucan Theology and in the Classical Creeds." In Scripture, Tradition, and Reason, ed. Richard Bauckham and Benjamin Drewery, 65-100. Edinburgh: T, & T, Clark, 1988.

Machen, J. Gresham. The Virgin Birth of Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930.

Maillot, Alphonse. "Quelques Remarques sur la Naissance Virginale du Christ." Foi et Vie 77, no. 4 (June 1978): 30-44.

Moody, Dale. "Isaiah 7:14 in the Revised Standard Version." The Review and Expositor 50, no. 1 (January 1953): 61-68.

Moody, Dale. "The Miraculous Conception." The Review and Expositor 51, no. 4 (October 1954): 495-507.

Moody, Dale.  "The Miraculous Conception: Part II (The New Testament)." The Review and Expositor 52, no. 1 (January 1955): 44-54.

Moody, Dale. "The Miraculous Conception: Part III (The Church Fathers)." The Review and Expositor 52, no. 3 (July 1955): 310-24.

Peake, Arthur S. "The Supernatural Birth of Jesus." The Methodist Quarterly Review 73, no. 4 (October 1924): 579-91.

Rule, Andrew K. "Born of the Virgin Mary." Christianity Today 4, no. 5 (December 7, 1959): 3-5.

Scotland, N. A. D. "Conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary." Evangelical Review of Theology 10, no. 1 (Janu~ary 1986): 27-32.

Taylor, Vincent. The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1920.

Thompson, William J. "Jesus in the Light of Parthenogenesis." Methodist Review 106 (November-December 1923): 888-98.

Turner, H. E. W. "Expository Problems: The Virgin Birth." The Expository Times 68, no., 1 (October 1956): 12-17.

Commentaries on the Infancy Narratives
in Matthew and Luke

Bovon, François. Das Evangelium nach Lukas. Vol. 1. Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament, ed. Josef Blank, Rudolf Schnackenburg, Eduard Schweizer, and Ulrich Wilckens. Zürich: Benziger Verlag, 1989.

Bock, Darrell L.  Proclamation from Prophecy and Pattern: Lucan Old Testament Christology. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement Series 12, ed. David Hill.  Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1987.

Brown, Raymond E. The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. New updated edition. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

Bruce, Alexander Balmain. The Synoptic Gospels. The Expositor's Greek Testament, ed. W. Robertson Nicoll. Reprint ed. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1988.

Buttrick, George Arthur, ed. The Interpreter's Bible. Vol. 8, Luke; John. New York: Abingdon Press, 1952.

Creed, J. M. The Gospel according to St. Luke. London: Macmillan, 1930.

Danker, F. W. Jesus and the New Age: A Commentary on St. Luke‘s Gospel. Revised edition. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.

Ellis, E. Earle.  The Gospel of Luke. Revised edition. New Century Bible Commentary, NT ed. Matthew Black.  Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1966; reprint, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1974.

Ernst, Josef. Das Evangelium nach Lukas. Regensburger Neues Testament, ed. Otto Kuss. Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 1977.

Evans, Christopher Francis.  Saint LukeTPI New Testament Commentaries, eds. Howard Clark Kee and Dennis Nineham.  Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A.  The Gospel According to Luke (I-IX). The Anchor Bible, vol. 28, eds. William Foxwell Albright, David Noel Freedman.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1981.

Geldenhuys, Norval. Commentary on the Gospel of Luke. The New International Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1960.

Goulder, Michael D.  Luke: A New Paradigm, vol. I. Journal for the Study of the New Testament: Supplement Series 20, vol. I, ed. David Hill.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

Grundmann, Walter. Das Evangelium nach Lukas. 9th ed. Theologischer Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament, ed. Erich Fascher, Joachim Rohde, and Christian Wolff, no. 3. Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1981

Harrington, Wilfrid J.  A Comentary: The Gospel According to St. Luke.  New York: Newman Press, 1967.

Hendriksen, W. Exposition of the Gospel according to Luke. New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1978.

Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke. Sacra Pagina Series, ed. Daniel J. Harrington, vol. 3. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1991.

Laurentin, Rene.   The Truth of Christmas Beyond the Myths: The Gospels of the Infancy of Christ.  Translated by Michael J. Wrenn and associates.  Studies in Scripture, ed. Cyril Karam.  Petersham, Mass.: St. Bede's Publications, 1986.

Liefeld, Walter L. Luke. The Expositor's Bible Commentary, ed. Frank E. Gaebelein. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984.

Loisy, Alfred. L’évangile selon Luc. Paris: Émile Nourry, 1924.

Marshall, I. H. The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text. New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.

Morris, Leon.  Luke: An Introduction and Commentary. The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, ed. Leon Morris.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1988.

Nolland, J. Luke 1-9:20. Word Biblical Commentary 35a. Dallas:  Word, 1989.

Plummer, Alfred.  A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to S. LukeThe International Critical Commentary, ed. Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs.  Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1913; reprint of the fourth edition, 1901.

Robertson, A. T. Word Pictures in the New Testament. Vol. 2, Luke. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1930.

Schlatter, Adolf. Das Evangelium des Lukas. 2d ed. Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1960.

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