2.10. 17 Matthew's Gospel.pptx

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi, 2015

One of the most intriguing aspects of the experience of reading the gospels, for both beginning students and those who have been at it for decades, is the growing awareness of how the gospels convey their message. Our attention is usually focused first on what the message is: the storyline, the plot, the climax or resolution, and its implications. As we continue to read and reread, we may find that we begin to grow interested in various features of the narrative, such as its organisation, collections of material (parables or miracle stories), repetitions, the ways characters are represented or the narrator’s comments. These are not incidental features of the gospel narrative. On the contrary, they are the elements with which it is constructed and that guide the reader’s experience of the narrative. In this article we will explore how Matthew leads its Jewish-Christian readers, sometime late in the 1st century and during theprocess of the separation of early believers from the synago...

Feasting on the Gospels--Luke, Volume 2: A Feasting on the Word Commentary, 2015

Contributed the exegetical sections for Luke 2:14-30.

This paper discusses introductory issues in the Gospel of Matthew

Jesus and the Nations: Discipleship and Mission in the Gospel of Mathew, 2022

Jesus’s command to disciple all the nations in Matt 28:19 has provided a powerful catalyst for cross-cultural mission for the past two thousand years. But what does this command mean in the context of Matthew’s narrative? Cedric E. W. Vine proposes an understanding of Matthean discipleship and mission that builds on Richard Bauckham’s open-audience thesis in The Gospels for All Christians (1998) and his own The Audience of Matthew (2014). Vine argues from a biblical theology perspective that Matthew’s pervasive and consistent application of the nation-directed identities of prophet, righteous person, student-teacher, wise man, and scribe to the followers of Jesus reveals a concern less with defining community boundaries or promoting “church growth” and more with casting a powerful vision of nations transformed through the acceptance of the sovereignty of the risen king. Matthew’s missiological horizon stretches well beyond defending, as suggested by some commentators, an inferred first-century Matthean community in an acrimonious intramural dispute with other Jewish groups. Rather, Matthew prepares his readers, first century and later, through a multifaceted and nuanced theology of discipleship, for participation in a missiological movement that is national in its focus, breathtaking in its scope, eschatological in its significance, and open in its appeal.

The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures edited by: Briggs, Charles Augustus; Driver, Samuel Rolles; Plummer, Alfred; Brown, Francis, 1953

Part of the International Critical Commentary. The author is Allen, Willoughby Charles, 1867-1953. As far as I know this book is in the public domain and I freely publish it here for people who search for a free but older commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. It is also available in archive.org in many other formats. Published 1907 by C. Scribner's sons, New York. (Openlibrary Edition: OL23291838M, Openlibrary Work: OL252717W)

Journal of Moral Theology, 2013