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The interpretation of Matthew
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ISBN: 0800617665 Year: 1983 Volume: 3 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.): Fortress

The crowds in the Gospel of Matthew
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ISBN: 1280464801 9786610464807 1417515104 9047400976 9789047400974 9004121773 9781417515103 9789004121775 9781280464805 6610464804 Year: 2002 Volume: 102 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This volume identifies the crowds ( ochloi ) in the Gospel of Matthew and explains their character and function. It argues that a proper appreciation of the crowds is essential to an understanding of salvation history in the gospel. The book identifies the crowds as Jewish, and establishes that both the positive and negative characterizations of the crowds correspond to portrayals of Israel drawn from the Hebrew Scriptures. It concludes that the crowds are also meant to be figurative for the Jewish people of Matthew's own day. New Testament scholars, particularly specialists in Matthew and the Synoptic Gospels will find the volume useful, and it will also appeal to those interested in early Jewish-Christian relations and the "parting of the ways" between the two faiths.

Der Kommentar zum Evangelium nach Mattäus
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ISBN: 3777290114 377728307X 9783777283074 Year: 1983 Volume: 18, 30, 38 Publisher: Stuttgart Hiersemann

Heaven and earth in the Gospel of Matthew
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ISSN: 01679732 ISBN: 9789004162051 1281936677 9786611936679 9047421841 9789047421849 9004162054 Year: 2007 Volume: 126 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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A much-overlooked aspect of the Gospel of Matthew is the theme of heaven and earth. Rather than being a reverential circumlocution for God, ‘heaven’ in Matthew is part of a highly developed discourse of heaven and earth language. Matthew’s idiolectic way of using heaven language consists of four aspects: 1) a distinction in meaning between singular and plural forms of ouranos ; 2) frequent use of the heaven and earth word pair; 3) regular reference to the Father in heaven; and 4) the recurrent use of the Matthean expression, kingdom of heaven. This book examines the historical precedents for each of these aspects and shows in Matthew how they serve one overriding theological purpose: to highlight the tension that currently exists between heaven and earth or God and humanity, while looking forward to its eschatological resolution.

Matthew and the Didache : Two Documents from the Same Jewish-Christian Milieu?
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ISBN: 9023240774 0800637224 9789023240778 9789004495326 9004495320 9780800637224 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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The Didache, or Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, is an important source for our knowledge of early Christianity. The Didache demonstrates that we should understand nascent Christianity and early Judaism as sharing to a large extent the same traditions. The volume throws fresh light on the Jewishness of the Two Ways teaching in Didache 1-6. It presents a cautious reconstruction of the Jewish prototype of the Two Ways and traces the Jewish life situation in which the instruction could emerge and flourish. This attempt is important, as it provides us with a Jewish source (and its transmission) underlying Christian and Jewish writings. For example, it is shown how acquaintance with these traditional materials benefits our perception of the antithetical section in Matthew 5:17-48. In the field of liturgical studies, a significant contribution is made to the discussion of Didache 7-10. It improves our understanding of the Jewish provenance and historical development of Baptism and the Eucharist. The book also presents an intriguing look into the redactional stages behind the materials about church discipline. The ministry of itinerant apostles and prophets moving from town to town, and their settling down in the community, is considered in the perspective of the larger environment of Jewish religious and cultural history. This volume will prove indispensable for all those engaged in the study of early Judaism, the New Testament, Patristics, the origins of Christian liturgy, and early Church history in general.


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Matthew’s New David at the End of Exile: A Socio-Rhetorical Study of Scriptural Quotations
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ISSN: 01679732 ISBN: 9789004326781 9789004326880 9004326782 900432688X Year: 2016 Volume: 170 Publisher: Brill

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Matthew crowds more Old Testament quotations and allusions into the prologue than anywhere else in his gospel. In this volume, Nicholas G. Piotrowski demonstrates the narratological and rhetorical effects of such frontloading. Particularly, seven formula-quotations constellate to establish a redemptive-historical setting inside of which the rest of the narrative operates. This setting is defined by Old Testament expectations for David’s great son to end Israel’s exile and rule the nations. Piotrowski contends that the rhetorical effect of this intertextual storytelling was to provide the Matthean community with an identity—in a contentious atmosphere—in terms of God’s historical design for the ages, now fulfilled in Jesus and his followers.

Revealed wisdom and inaugurated eschatology in ancient Judaism and early Christianity
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ISBN: 9789004155824 9004155821 9786611917197 1281917192 9047419243 9789047419242 9781281917195 6611917195 Year: 2007 Volume: 115 Publisher: Leiden : ; Boston : Brill,

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This book examines four texts: 1 Enoch, 4QInstruction, Matthew and 2 Enoch. A common idea in these texts, which blend sapiential and apocalyptic elements, is that the revealing of wisdom to an elect group inaugurates the eschatological period. The emphasis on “revealed wisdom” is essentially apocalyptic, but facilitates the uptake of motifs, forms and language from the sapiential tradition and is important in explaining the fusion of the two traditions. In addition, revealed wisdom often has creational associations and this has significance for the notion of ethics in these texts. The book will interest anyone concerned with the development of Jewish and Christian eschatology and ethics. It also challenges the simplistic redactional assumptions of certain New Testament scholars.

Matthäuspassion
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ISBN: 3518019988 Year: 1988 Volume: 998 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp,

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