The Matthean Community And The World

Author : James P. Grimshaw
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1433100835

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The Matthean Community and the World by James P. Grimshaw Pdf

This study of the Matthean narrative uses the interpretive lens of food exchange to explore the Matthean community's relationship with the wider world. While many studies depict this community as withdrawing from or in conflict with the larger society, James P. Grimshaw's focus on the daily need for food reveals a community that, while distinct, progressively integrates itself into the larger Jewish and Gentile society and the natural world. In addition, this view of community corresponds to the view of a God who actively provides for and relates to all creation. Grimshaw's alternative portrayal of the Matthean community, whose interactions with its surrounding environment are more complex and sustained than often imagined, is a compelling interpretation for today's stratified and disconnected world.

Author : J. Andrew Overman
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018874282

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Matthew's Gospel and Formative Judaism by J. Andrew Overman Pdf

"This is a study of the life and world of the community represented by the Gospel of Matthew. As Max Weber recognized, every community mus order its life, and develp means by which it can preserve and protect itself. It is clear that the Matthean community was in no way exempt from this sociological necessity. Matthew's community, like any other, was confronted with the task of explaining the experiences and convictions of the community to ensuing members as well as developing structures and procedures that would help protect it from alien forces and beliefs. This study focuses on those developments." --

Author : David C. Sim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567086419

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The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism by David C. Sim Pdf

In this meticulously researched study, David C. Sim reconstructs the Matthean community at the time the Gospel was written and traces its full history. Dr. Sim demonstrates that the Matthean community should be located in Antioch in the late first century, and he argues that the history of this community can only be understood in the context of the factionalism of the early Christian movement. He identifies two distinctive and opposing Christian perspectives: the first represented by the Jerusalem church and the Matthean community, which maintained that the Christian message must be preached within the context of Judaism; and the second represented by Paul and the Pauline communities, in which Christians were not expected to observe the Jewish law. Dr. Sim reconstructs not only the conflict between Matthew's Christian Jewish community and the Pauline churches, but also its further conflicts with the Jewish and Gentile worlds in the aftermath of the Jewish war.

Author : David L. Balch
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015024763255

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Social History of the Matthean Community by David L. Balch Pdf

Author : Anthony J. Saldarini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226734217

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Matthew's Christian-Jewish Community by Anthony J. Saldarini Pdf

The most Jewish of gospels in its contents and yet the most anti-Jewish in its polemics, the Gospel of Matthew has been said to mark the emergence of Christianity from Judaism. Anthony J. Saldarini overturns this interpretation by showing us how Matthew, far from proclaiming the replacement of Israel by the Christian church, wrote from within Jewish tradition to a distinctly Jewish audience. Recent research reveals that among both Jews and Christians of the first century many groups believed in Jesus while remaining close to Judaism. Saldarini argues that the author of the Gospel of Matthew belonged to such a group, supporting his claim with an informed reading of Matthew's text and historical context. Matthew emerges as a Jewish teacher competing for the commitment of his people after the catastrophic loss of the Temple in 70 C.E., his polemics aimed not at all Jews but at those who oppose him. Saldarini shows that Matthew's teaching about Jesus fits into first-century Jewish thought, with its tradition of God-sent leaders and heavenly mediators. In Saldarini's account, Matthew's Christian-Jewish community is a Jewish group, albeit one that deviated from the larger Jewish community. Contributing to both New Testament and Judaic studies, this book advances our understanding of how religious groups are formed.

Author : Stephenson Brooks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474236317

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Matthew's Community by Stephenson Brooks Pdf

In this careful study, the unparalleled sayings in Matthew (the 'M' sayings) are investigated as a source of evidence for a reconstruction of the history of the community in which the various traditions were preserved. Using a wide range of criteria, Dr Brooks isolates fourteen 'M' sayings from major concentrations of unparalleled material in Matt. 5.17-6.18 and chs. 10 and 23, supplementing these with four additional sayings. The picture of the traditions that emerges provides the basis for a new hypothesis that reconstructs a three-stage history of the Matthean community, thereby accounting for the presence of some mutually exclusive traditions in the Gospel.

Author : J. Andrew Overman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 156338101X

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Church and Community in Crisis by J. Andrew Overman Pdf

Shows how Matthew's Gospel was shaped by and in response to local regional tensions within Jewish society and culture in the post-70 C.E. period in Palestine.

Author : Jeannine K. Brown
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004127135

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The Disciples in Narrative Perspective by Jeannine K. Brown Pdf

This study offers a narrative reading of Matthew arguing that the disciples frequently fail to understand Jesus, his mission and his message. The function of this portrayal for Matthew's story and in shaping his concept of discipleship is explored. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Author : Anders Runesson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451452259

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Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew by Anders Runesson Pdf

Judgment and the wrath of God are prominent themes in Matthew’s Gospel. Because judgment is announced not only on the hypocritical but also on those who reject God’s messengers—and because this rejection is implicitly connected with the destruction of Jerusalem—the Gospel has often been read in terms of God’s rejection of Israel, with catastrophic results. Anders Runesson sets out to show, through careful study of Matthew’s composition and comparison with contemporary Jewish literature, that the theme of divine judgment plays very different and distinct roles regarding diverse groups of Jews (including Jesus’ disciples) and non-Jews in this Gospel. Runesson examines various assumptions regarding the criteria of judgment in each case and finds that Matthew does not support some of the most popular slogans in Christian theology. The results and implications for our historical understanding of Christian origins and our theological estimation of Matthew’s place in that story will be of vital interest to scholars and students for years to come.

Author : Charles E. Carlston,Craig A. Evans
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161518047

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From Synagogue to Ecclesia by Charles E. Carlston,Craig A. Evans Pdf

Charles E. Carlston and Craig A. Evans show how the Evangelist took over a variety of traditions from Judaism and early Christianity and worked them into a theological portrait that would be accessible to both Jews and Gentiles as they became followers of Jesus--Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Canongate U.S.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0802136168

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The Gospel According to Matthew by Anonim Pdf

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.

Author : Ulrich Luz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802839649

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Studies in Matthew by Ulrich Luz Pdf

Translated by Rosemary Selle The work of one of the world's foremost New Testament scholars, Ulrich Luz, this book gathers eighteen penetrating studies of Matthew's Gospel, available here in English for the first time. Luz's groundbreaking work ranges widely over the critical issues of Matthean studies, including the narrative structure and sources of the Gospel and its presentation of such themes as christology, discipleship, miracles, and Israel. Several chapters also outline and demonstrate the hermeneutical methods underlying Luz's acclaimed commentary on Matthew, for which this book can serve as a companion. Luz is particularly conscious of the Gospel's reception history, a history of interpretation connecting us with the past that determines so many of our questions, categories, and values. Studies in Matthew thus constitutes a noteworthy contribution to biblical hermeneutics as well as to exegesis.

Author : Anders Runesson,Daniel M. Gurtner
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884144441

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Matthew within Judaism by Anders Runesson,Daniel M. Gurtner Pdf

In this collection of essays, leading New Testament scholars reassess the reciprocal relationship between Matthew and Second Temple Judaism. Some contributions focus on the relationship of the Matthean Jesus to torah, temple, and synagogue, while others explore theological issues of Jewish and gentile ethnicity and universalism within and behind the text.

Author : W.J.C. Weren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004280519

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Studies in Matthew's Gospel by W.J.C. Weren Pdf

These essays concentrate on structures and meanings in textual units from Matthew’s Gospel. New tools are developed for the intertextual analysis of relations with texts from the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. New windows are opened on shifts in the identity of Matthean communities.

Author : Matt Woodley
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830836420

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The Gospel of Matthew by Matt Woodley Pdf

They say the Bible is true, but does it ring true? Does it resonate? In this journey through the Gospel of Matthew, Matt Woodley considers the audacious idea of a God with us--confronting us in the midst of all we've invested ourselves in and dedicated ourselves to, and encouraging us with the promise that the God who made us has a better life in mind for us. The Resonate series recovers the ancient wisdom of Scripture for a complex world. The stories and insights of each book of the Bible are brought into conversation with contemporary voices of hope and lament--the cultural messages we interact with on a daily basis. The Scriptures become a meeting ground where God is confronted with the pressing concerns of our day, and we are confronted in turn with a fresh experience of God's truth.