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7 - The Gospel according to Matthew

from Part II - The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Roland Deines
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

Reads the Gospel of Matthew for its main content and themes. Deines shows how the gospel reveals Jesus’ universal significance by means of his Jewish particularity, signalled by his reformulation of Davidic messiahship and Abrahamic heritage. In this light, Matthew is interpreted as a gospel for all Christians, a new scripture for a new time and a new people whose life is shaped by Jesus’ life and teaching.

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Gospel of Matthewchristologyethicsmessiahship
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 137 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Boxall, Ian, Discovering Matthew: Content, Interpretation, Reception (London: SPCK, 2014)Google Scholar
Broadhead, Edwin Keith, The Gospel of Matthew on the Landscape of Antiquity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017)Google Scholar
Carlston, Charles E., and Evans, Craig A., From Synagogue to Ecclesia: Matthew’s Community at the Crossroads (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014)Google Scholar
Deines, Roland, Die Gerechtigkeit der Tora im Reich des Messias: Mt 5,13–20 als Schlüsseltext der Matthäischen Theologie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004)Google Scholar
Kealy, Sean P. Matthew’s Gospel and the History of Biblical Interpretation, 2 vols. (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1997)Google Scholar
Konradt, Matthias, Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014)Google Scholar
Powell, Mark Allan, ed., Methods for Matthew (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009)Google Scholar
Riches, John K., and Sim, David C., eds., The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context (London: T&T Clark, 2005)Google Scholar
Runesson, Anders, Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2016)Google Scholar
Sim, David C., and Repschinski, Boris, eds., Matthew and His Christian Contemporaries (London: T&T Clark, 2008)Google Scholar
Stanton, Graham, Studies in Matthew and Early Christianity, ed. Bockmuehl, Markus and Lincicum, David, WUNT 309 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013)Google Scholar

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