Matthew’s Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic Texts

Matthew’s Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic Texts
Title Matthew’s Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic Texts PDF eBook
Author Bruce Henning
Publisher BRILL
Pages 276
Release 2020-11-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004444181

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In Matthew’s Non-Messianic Mapping of Messianic Texts, Bruce Henning challenges the popular description of Matthew’s use of fulfillment language as Christological to the more general category “broadly eschatological” by exploring case studies which map a messianic image to Jesus’ disciples.

Practicing Intertextuality

Practicing Intertextuality
Title Practicing Intertextuality PDF eBook
Author Max J. Lee
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 250
Release 2021-10-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 172527440X

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Practicing Intertextuality attempts something bold and ambitious: to map both the interactions and intertextual techniques used by New Testament authors as they engaged the Old Testament and the discourses of their fellow Jewish and Greco-Roman contemporaries. This collection of essays functions collectively as a handbook describing the relationship between ancient authors, their texts, and audience capacity to detect allusions and echoes. Aimed for biblical studies majors, graduate and seminary students, and academics, the book catalogues how New Testament authors used the very process of interacting with their Scriptures (that is, the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, and their variants) and the texts of their immediate environment (including popular literary works, treatises, rhetorical handbooks, papyri, inscriptions, artifacts, and graffiti) for the very production of their message. Each chapter demonstrates a type of interaction (that is, doctrinal reformulations, common ancient ethical and religious usage, refutation, irenic appropriation, and competitive appropriation), describes the intertextual technique(s) employed by the ancient author, and explains how these were practiced in Jewish, Greco-Roman, or early Christian circles. Seventeen scholars, each an expert in their respective fields, have contributed studies which illuminate the biblical interpretation of the Gospels, the Pauline letters, and General Epistles through the process of intertextuality.

Jesus as Teacher in the Gospel of Matthew

Jesus as Teacher in the Gospel of Matthew
Title Jesus as Teacher in the Gospel of Matthew PDF eBook
Author Charles Nathan Ridlehoover
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 257
Release 2023-07-27
Genre Religion
ISBN 0567697878

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Inspired by the work of Richard France and his highly influential Matthew: Evangelist and Teacher, Charles L. Quarles and Charles Nathan Ridlehoover have gathered together a collection of works that argue for a re-examination of the defining features of Jesus's role as a teacher in the Gospel of Matthew. This volume suggests that, while each of the Gospel writers display Jesus leading disciples along, speaking to crowds, and confronting Jewish authorities with effective and timely teachings, Matthew's portrayal of Jesus as a teacher contains distinctives that deserve further exploration. After examining Jesus's Old Testament and Second Temple influences and comparing his methods to the contemporary Greco-Roman tradition, the contributors explore Jesus's position as a teacher of faith and forgiveness and a trainer of scribes, and analyse his relationship with several different apostles. Including responsive essays, and concluding with a summary of Jesus and Matthew himself as evangelists and teachers, this journey through the aspects of Jesus's teaching ministry gives readers a more complete look at Jesus's vocation.

Jesus as the Son of 1-2 Samuel’s David

Jesus as the Son of 1-2 Samuel’s David
Title Jesus as the Son of 1-2 Samuel’s David PDF eBook
Author Marc Grønbech-Dam
Publisher BRILL
Pages 358
Release 2024-05-23
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004693904

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Although the Gospel of Matthew emphasizes Jesus as the son of David, no one has systematically investigated how 1-2 Samuel influence Matthew's portrayal of Jesus as the son of David. This work addresses that lacuna and shows how the sustained use of 1-2 Samuel in Matthew evokes the themes of mercy and righteousness as the hallmarks of a proper Davidic shepherd. The book's systematic intertextual and narrative approach offers another way to understand Matthew’s Christology and portrayal of the kingdom of heaven. It helps the reader appreciate the justice-focused nature of Jesus’ rule and its religious and political implications.

Matthew, Disciple and Scribe

Matthew, Disciple and Scribe
Title Matthew, Disciple and Scribe PDF eBook
Author Patrick Schreiner
Publisher Baker Academic
Pages 327
Release 2019-09-03
Genre Religion
ISBN 1493418122

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This fresh look at the Gospel of Matthew highlights the unique contribution that Matthew's rich and multilayered portrait of Jesus makes to understanding the connection between the Old and New Testaments. Patrick Schreiner argues that Matthew obeyed the Great Commission by acting as scribe to his teacher Jesus in order to share Jesus's life and work with the world, thereby making disciples of future generations. The First Gospel presents Jesus's life as the fulfillment of the Old Testament story of Israel and shows how Jesus brings new life in the New Testament.

The Gospel according to st. Matthew, with maps, notes, and intr. by A. Carr

The Gospel according to st. Matthew, with maps, notes, and intr. by A. Carr
Title The Gospel according to st. Matthew, with maps, notes, and intr. by A. Carr PDF eBook
Author Matthew (st)
Publisher
Pages 288
Release 1878
Genre
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Christ Among the Messiahs

Christ Among the Messiahs
Title Christ Among the Messiahs PDF eBook
Author Matthew V. Novenson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 254
Release 2012-04-17
Genre Religion
ISBN 0199844585

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Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism, finding only scattered references to messiahs in Hellenistic- and Roman-period texts, has generally concluded that the word ''messiah'' did not mean anything determinate in antiquity. Meanwhile, interpreters of Paul, faced with his several hundred uses of the Greek word for ''messiah,'' have concluded that christos in Paul does not bear its conventional sense. Against this curious consensus, Matthew V. Novenson argues in Christ among the Messiahs that all contemporary uses of such language, Paul's included, must be taken as evidence for its range of meaning. In other words, early Jewish messiah language is the kind of thing of which Paul's Christ language is an example. Looking at the modern problem of Christ and Paul, Novenson shows how the scholarly discussion of christos in Paul has often been a cipher for other, more urgent interpretive disputes. He then traces the rise and fall of ''the messianic idea'' in Jewish studies and gives an alternative account of early Jewish messiah language: the convention worked because there existed both an accessible pool of linguistic resources and a community of competent language users. Whereas it is commonly objected that the normal rules for understanding christos do not apply in the case of Paul since he uses the word as a name rather than a title, Novenson shows that christos in Paul is neither a name nor a title but rather a Greek honorific, like Epiphanes or Augustus. Focusing on several set phrases that have been taken as evidence that Paul either did or did not use christos in its conventional sense, Novenson concludes that the question cannot be settled at the level of formal grammar. Examining nine passages in which Paul comments on how he means the word christos, Novenson shows that they do all that we normally expect any text to do to count as a messiah text. Contrary to much recent research, he argues that Christ language in Paul is itself primary evidence for messiah language in ancient Judaism.