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Sermon notes - October 15, 2007
INTRODUCTION Jesus' final exhortations anticipate the eschatological discourse of chapters 24-25. Jesus is warning Israel that the only way her house – i.e., the temple – can survive is by hearing and keeping His words. By the time we get...

Sermon notes - October 09, 2007
INTRODUCTION Jesus ends the central teaching section of the sermon on the mount with warnings against hypocritical judgment and trusting in power. He again assures us of our Father's kindness. THE TEXT "Judge not, that you be not judged. For...

Eucharistic meditation - September 30, 2007
Matthew 6:17-18: But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that you may not be seen fasting by men, but by your heavenly Father, who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will...

Baptismal meditation - September 30, 2007
Matthew 3:17: At Jesus' baptism, a voice from heaven said, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased. Baptism is an adoption rite. By baptism, Jacob enters the family of God. He is going to gain dozens of...

Exhortation - September 30, 2007
Some sins are obvious. Murder is both a sinful act and arises from a sinful motive. After a murder, there’s a dead body and a murderer with a smoking gun. Murder is obviously and thoroughly evil. And the same is...

Heard for many words - September 29, 2007
At the beginning of Book 11 of Apuleius's Golden Ass, Lucius returns to his human shape by prayer. As David Garland points out, the prayer is a good illustration of the kind of pagan prayers Jesus condemns in the sermon...

Sermon notes - September 24, 2007
INTRODUCTION Jesus teaches that our good works are light in a dark world (Matthew 5:14-16). At the center of the sermon, however, He describes acts of righteousness that are not to be done before men but before God alone. These...

Sermon notes - September 17, 2007
INTRODUCTION According to many translations, Jesus instructs His disciples, "do not resist him who is evil" (Matthew 5:39, NASB). This is mistaken. What Jesus says is "do not resist by evil means." Jesus resisted evil, but He resisted evil by...

Exhortation - September 16, 2007
Jesus deals with divorce and remarriage, but His central teaching about marriage is that "From the beginning it was not so." His point is not mainly to narrow the escape route from marriage. He commands husbands and wives to live...

Sermon notes - September 10, 2007
INTRODUCTION As we follow Jesus' commandments, we become agents for advancing God’s reign and His redemptive righteousness. Marriages are transformed into life-long partnerships in ministry, and our words are become truthful. THE TEXT "Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces...

Exhortation - September 09, 2007
Honor was a chief value in the ancient world. For Jews, Greeks, and Romans, any violation of honor – by insult or attack – had to be avenged. Men – and this was a masculine ethic – had to defend...

Phallic gaze - September 08, 2007
For ancient Romans, Shadi Bartsch argues in her The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire, sight was not merely passive and receptive but active. Gazing with the evil eye meant sending out...

More Blame-shifting - September 08, 2007
This time from Tertullian, in his treatise on the veiling of virgins. Christian women, he says, ought to "go about in humble garb, and rather to affect meanness of appearance, walking about as Eve mourning and repentant, in order that...

Blame Shifting - September 08, 2007
Speaking of his sexual sin in the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Reuben blames women for being too enticing: "For women are evil, my children, and by reason of their lacking authority or power over man, they scheme treacherously how...

Walk through the tabernacle - September 03, 2007
You are salt: Jesus is at the altar, considering the salt that is added to the offerings. The earth is the altar, the nations the sacrifice (Romans 16), and the disciples of Jesus the flavoring on the offering. You are...

Sermon outline - September 03, 2007
INTRODUCTION Jesus came to fulfill the law and prophets, not to abolish them. Beginning in 5:21, He shows in some detail what that means. THE TEXT "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not...

Exhortation - September 02, 2007
Most of the Beatitudes in Matthew are stated in third person. "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." "They shall be comforted," "they shall inherit the earth," "they shall be called the sons of...

Sermon outline - August 27, 2007
INTRODUCTION Most of the Beatitudes are in the third person, but in verses 11-12 Jesus addresses the people directly: "Blessed are you." That third-person address continues into verses 13-16. Jesus is addressing the same group. The people who fulfill Israel's...

Blessed are the poor - August 25, 2007
In a 1927 article in JBL, one C. C. McCown examines the Beatitudes in the light of ancient Assyrian, Babylonian, and Hebrew ideals of kingship. There is a consensus that a just king will bring benefits to the poor. The...

Trampled underfoot - August 25, 2007
Jesus' disciples are salt and light. The salt is low, on the earth; the light is set up high on a lamp, so it can light the house. James Jordan has pointed out the connection with earth (salt) and heaven...

All Israel - August 25, 2007
Jesus preaches the sermon to multitudes that gather for healing and to hear the gospel. They come from every point of the compass. Jesus has gone about "all Galilee," and the crowds come to Galilee from all over the land...

Sermon outline - August 20, 2007
INTRODUCTION Jesus opens His sermon pronouncing blessings. The Beatitudes imply certain attitudes and kinds of behavior, which are spelled out in the rest of the sermon. Above all, the Beatitudes are promises. As the one anointed by the Spirit, Jesus...

Eucharistic exhortation - August 19, 2007
Matthew 5:20: I say to you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven. I've suggested in the sermon that Jesus is giving His disciples and the crowds instructions...

Exhortation - August 19, 2007
"I say to you," Jesus said, "unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." It's easy to soften the force of this. Don't. Jesus is not talking about His own...

Redemptive righteousness - August 18, 2007
In a 2003 article in JBL, Glen Stassen of Fuller Seminary examines what he describes as fourteen triads in the sermon on the mount. Along the way, he challenges the almost universal assumption that 5:17-48 is a collection of "antitheses,"...

Structure of the Sermon - August 18, 2007
In a 1987 article and a 2005 revision (published in his Studies in Matthew), Dale Allison offers a careful treatment of the structure of the sermon on the mount. To begin with, there are multiple verbal parallels between 4:25-5:2 and...

New Sinai, new tabernacle - August 18, 2007
Jesus teaches the disciples on the mountain, we're told in 5:1. Jesus sees multitudes, sits down, and the disciples come to Him. On the mountain, there is a circle within the circle. This is a new Sinai. Around Sinai, and...

Sermon notes - August 13, 2007
INTRODUCTION "Follow Me," Jesus said as the new Moses, leading a restored Israel out of the old Egypt-Israel that was under the reign of Death. How do we follow Him? That's what the Sermon on the Mount is all about....

Eucharistic exhortation - August 12, 2007
Matthew 4:24: And the news about Him went out into all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, taken with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them. Jesus comes preaching, casting out demons,...

Day of Midian - August 11, 2007
Isaiah 9 describes not only a dawn, but the dawn of victory. With the light comes a multiplication of the nation, a repopulation of the land, gladness like the gladness of harvest (v. 3). This gladness is the result of...

Dawn and darkness - August 11, 2007
Matthew says that Jesus' residence in Capernaum fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah 9 about the dawning in the land of Zebulun and Naphtali. There are several aspects to this. 1) Isaiah 9 comes at the end of a prophecy concerning...

Promise of Zebulun - August 11, 2007
It's no wonder that the land of Zebulun and Naphtali, the region of Galilee, was considered a place of darkness. Towns had been sold to the Gentile Hiram, and apparently pronounced worthless (1 Kings 9). This region was the first...

Sermon outline - August 06, 2007
INTRODUCTION Jesus' ministry is linked to John's. When John is arrested, Jesus moves to Galilee and settles in Capernaum (4:12-13), and later John's death leads to another withdrawal (14:13). Jesus removes Himself from harm's way so that the kingdom of...

Jesus as Israel and Moses - August 04, 2007
Much of the following depends on Austin Farrer's discussion in The Triple Victory. Why was Jesus tempted in the particular ways He was tempted? The best answer to that question is typological. Jesus is the true Israel, and He is...

Led into temptation - August 04, 2007
Every week, we pray that our Father will not lead us into temptation, and that He will deliver us from evil. This is part of the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray, and the petition is reinforced by the...

Life of Testing - August 04, 2007
Jesus' temptation is a preview of the entire gospel. Jesus, the Son of God, becomes flesh, and enters the wilderness of this world, the wilderness that Israel has become. He assumed all human frailties and undergoes all the tests that...

Sermon outline - July 31, 2007
INTRODUCTION Satan is the adversary, a strong enemy. But Jesus is the stronger man. Satan is never triumphant in Matthew's gospel. In the power of the Spirit, Jesus is always Christus Victor. THE TEXT "Then Jesus was led up by...

Baptizing in the wilderness - June 24, 2007
Israel is Egypt. For Israel to become Israel again, she had to go back out to the wilderness, where John ministers, and she's going to have to cross the Jordan all over again. Wrath is coming on Israel/Egypt, and only...

With a camel skin on - June 24, 2007
Why does John the Baptist wear camel skin? Commentators often connect this with John's role as Elijah, the "Baal of hair" or, as I like to say, the "Hair-baal." That's correct, but the specificity of "camel hair" seems to point...

Sermon notes, Fourth Sunday of Trinity - June 18, 2007
INTRODUCTION John and Jesus both preach repentance and coming judgment; both offer both oppose the Pharisees and Sadducees; both are prophets. Wrath is coming on Israel (Matthew 3:7), and the Lord sends a double witness to warn Israel. THE TEXT...

Tropologies on Matthew 2 - June 17, 2007
We are the body of Christ, and His life-history becomes our life-history. Jesus recapitulates the history of Israel, and does it right. And in so doing, He also anticipates the history of the church. The history of the church is...

Eucharistic meditation - June 17, 2007
Matthew 2:23: He came and resided in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, He shall be called a Nazarene. As I mentioned in the sermon, Matthew is not quoting a particular passage...

Exhortation - June 17, 2007
Israel was to be a place of freedom and justice, a nation where the rights of the weak and oppressed, the fatherless and widow, would be defended. Israel was a nation of redeemed slaves, and Yahweh told her never to...

Sermon outline - June 10, 2007
INTRODUCTION Matthew 2:13-23 is divided into three episodes, each of which concludes with a statement about events "fulfilling" prophecy (2:15, 18, 23). His movements were mapped centuries before. As the incarnate Word (John 1:1, 14), He is living out the...

Notes on Matthew 2 - June 09, 2007
1) Jesus' infancy anticipates His passion, a point that Matthew makes by including multiple verbal and thematic connections between his opening and closing chapters. One example: Matthew is the only NT writer to quote Jeremiah by name, and he quotes...

Eucharistic exhortation, Sunday After Ascension - May 20, 2007
Isaiah 60: Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. . . . A multitude of camels will cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba will come; they...

Exhortation, Sunday After Ascension - May 20, 2007
"In my beginning is my end," wrote T. S. Eliot in his poem "East Coker." That is certainly true for Jesus. As Matthew tells it, His birth foreshadows His death. Already at His birth, Jesus provokes murderous and paranoid rage...

Sermon notes - May 14, 2007
INTRODUCTION Jesus is the "son of David" (Matthew 1:1), and therefore "King of the Jews" (2:2). Inevitably, His advent provokes fear and rage from other pretenders to the throne, like Herod. THE TEXT "Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem...

Eucharistic exhortation, Fourth Sunday After Easter - May 06, 2007
Matthew 1:23: They shall call His name Immanuel, which translated means, God with us. As we saw in the sermon this morning, the prophecy that Matthew cites is a prophecy assuring Judah of her victory over Israel and Aram. Immanuel...

God With Us - May 05, 2007
Warren Carter (JBL 119/3) examines the intertextual relations between Matthew 1:22-23 and Isaiah 7:14, which Matthew cites (he also discusses Matthew's citation of Isaiah 8:23-9:1 in 4:15-16). He argues first that Matthew intends to evoke the entire situation of Isaiah...

Sermon Notes, Fourth Sunday After Easter - April 30, 2007
INTRODUCTION Through the Spirit that comes upon Mary, God enters the creation to renew it. In Jesus, God is with His people to save them from their sins. THE TEXT :Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After...

Eucharistic meditation, Third Sunday After Easter - April 29, 2007
Matthew 1:17: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations. Last week, we noticed that Matthew begins...

Exhortation, Third Sunday After Easter - April 29, 2007
Twice in his genealogy, Matthew refers to "brothers." Jacob was the father of "Judah and his brothers," and at the time of the deportation to Babylon "Jeconiah and his brothers" were born to Josiah. This initiates a theme in Matthew's...

Names - April 29, 2007
In an article from New Testament Studies on the names in Matthew's genealogy, Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer suggests that the names in the last section of the genealogy are predominately priestly names. Thus, the genealogy divides into a patriarchal section, a royal...

Creation narrative - April 28, 2007
Matthew tells us the story of a new Genesis, a new beginnings story. And then he gives a genealogy that includes 6 weeks of generations (14 x 6 = 6 x 7), and announces the beginning of a seventh week....

Jesus as Israel - April 24, 2007
If you click on "Downloads" above you'll be able to find a longish, but rather unpolished and work-in-progressive paper on the typological structure of Matthew. Thanks to Ralph and Emeth Smith for pdf-ing it for me and uploading it to...

Gaps - April 23, 2007
Matthew's genealogy has several gaps. One of them occurs in his list of kings of Judah (vv. 8-9). He lists these: Joram Uzziah (Greek, OZIAS) Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah 2 Kings, by contrasts, lists the following:...

Matthew the Chronicler - April 23, 2007
Davies and Allison point out that Matthew follows the genealogy of Chronicles for the first section of his own genealogy. That is unusual, they say, since Chronicles was not widely used in early Christian writings. But it is an indication...

Sermon Notes, Third Sunday after Easter - April 23, 2007
Much of this is indebted to the ICC commentary by WD Davies and Dale Allison. INTRODUCTION For us, lists are boring. But ancient people loved lists, and biblical writers pack lists not only with facts but with theology. Matthew’s list...

Hound of Heaven - April 22, 2007
Every time God comes to Israel, He is rejected. He gives the law, but Israel does not want this Moses to be king and judge over them. He conquers the land, but Israel doesn't fills the land with shrines to...

Book of Genesis - April 21, 2007
Dale Allison argues that Matthew's opening words, BIBLOS GENESEOS, should be translated as "Book of the Genesis," a translation ambiguous enough to capture all that Matthew intended - an allusion to the first book of the Bible, a new creation...

Sermon Outline, Second Sunday after Easter - April 16, 2007
INTRODUCTION Matthew's gospel is organized to show that Jesus is the True Israel, reliving Israel's history faithfully. But Matthew also shows that Jesus is Israel's God, who is rejected by His own people but triumphs over their rejection. THE TEXT...

Thomas on the Parable of the Workers - March 29, 2007
Steinmetz summarizes Thomas's remarkably "NTWrightian" commentary on Matthew 20:1-16. While acknowledging an Origenist tradition that sees the hours as moments of an individual life, Thomas is more interested in the Irenaean tradition that interprets the parable in terms of redemptive...

Turning the cheek - March 07, 2007
A student, Daniel Foucachon, gave some very thoughtful perspectives on Jesus' instructions in the Sermon on the Mount. He noted that Jesus is not commending non-resistance, but a particular kind of resistance. Our resistance is modeled on Jesus' own; He...

Turning the cheek - February 06, 2007
In his book Reading Matthew, David Garland discusses the significance of "turning the other cheek": "W. Wink argues that the issue for Jesus is not simply resistance or surrender but what kind of resistance. He claims that turning the other...

The Faith of Jesus - February 03, 2007
Did Jesus exercise faith? Yes. That is inexplicably controversial today. Among many other indications that Jesus exercised surpassing faith, the account of Jesus' temptation in the wilderness stands out. Eat bread, Satan says. Man lives by the Word of God,...

Christmas Eve Sermon - December 24, 2006
Matthew 2 has all the elements of an exodus story. There is a murderous king, who slaughtering Jewish babies. There is a infant who will be Israel's future deliverer, saved from the murderous king so He can later return to...

Sermon notes, Fourth Sunday of Advent - December 18, 2006
INTRODUCTION While Herod and Jerusalem fear the news of the birth of Jesus, the Magi worship Him and rejoice (2:10). Here is another inversion of the original exodus story, and a preview of the gospel story: Jews reject their deliverer,...

Exhortation, Third Sunday of Advent - December 17, 2006
For most Americans, Christmas means warm feelings, forgiveness, kindness, generosity. It means putting our differences aside and getting along. Celebrating Christmas means celebrating liberalism and toleration. As in so many ways, our celebration of Christmas borrows scraps from the table...

Sermon Notes, Third Sunday of Advent - December 11, 2006
INTRODUCTION Modern Christians instinctively spiritualize the story of the gospel. When Jesus is called "King of the Jews," we think that refers to His "spiritual" kingdom. Herod didn't think so. Herod knew that Jesus' birth was a threat to his...

Lamentations in Matthew - August 09, 2006
David Moffitt argues in the current issue of JBL (125:2) that "Matthew alludes to Lamentations three times in chs. 23 and 28 of his Gospel (23:35; 27:34; and 27:39). The fact that these allusions come from chs. 2, 3, and...

Matthew's genealogy - August 08, 2006
In his midrashic/lectionary treatment of Matthew, M. D. Goulder suggests that "The three fourteens are to a Jew who had read Daniel six weeks of generations; and if six, then looking forward to a seventh, to make a week of...

Uses of theory - August 08, 2006
In a 1987 article in CBQ, Frank Matera deploys a highly technical narratological apparatus to draw the astonishing conclusion that "the plot of Matthew's gospel has something to do with salvation history, the recognition of Jesus' identity, his rejection by...

Matthew and Stephen - August 04, 2006
Assuming that Matthew was composed very early in the history of the church - in the early 30s, I suspect - it fits neatly into the early persecution situation of the church. As a retelling of Israel's history, it mimics...

Jeremiah the Socialist? - August 02, 2006
On both the cover and the title page, a recent book on Jeremiah typology in Matthew is subtitled "The Rejected Profit Motif in the Matthaean Redaction."...

Narrative structure of Matthew - August 02, 2006
In a 1997 article in NTS, Christopher Smith defends the five-discourse structure of Matthew against narrative critics who focus attention on the plot of Matthew. The problem with narrative approaches, Powell argues, is that as story Matthew doesn't always work...

Peter and Jeremiah - July 31, 2006
In a 1975 article in JBL, one Bruce Dahlberg suggests that the background to Matthew 16:13-23 is less Isaiah 22 (the "key" of Eliakim's shoulder) than Jeremiah 1, the call of the prophet. Some of his arguments rely on extrabiblical...

Second Blessing - July 31, 2006
In his study of Matthew's five-discourse structure, BW Bacon mentions commentators who connect the miracles of Matt 8-9 with the ancient idea that there were 10 plagues, 10 miracles by the sea, and 10 miracles in the sanctuary. His main...

Genealogical numerology - July 13, 2006
Austen Farrer suggests this numerological interpretation of Matthew 1: Matthew arranges the genealogy in "three pairs of sevens, six 'weeks' grouped in twos." Thus, "we have only six, as it were the working 'days' of a week of weeks. In...

Before Abraham Was - July 13, 2006
Matthew introduces his genealogy with a phrase drawn from Gen 2:4 and 5:1: the "book of the genesis." It looks as if Jesus is the end point of the genealogy, as if it begins with Abraham and ends with Joseph/Jesus....

Suffer Little Children - July 12, 2006
Jesus obviously welcomes children to Himself, but I wonder if there's isn't something more specific going on in the gospel stories about Jesus and children. Something like this: Jesus is the new Moses who calls Israel to follow Him to...

Random notes - July 10, 2006
Wim JC Weren proposes a "macrostructure" for Matthew in a 2006 article in Biblica. His scheme is not convincing, but along the way he makes some helpful observations. 1) He suggests that there's a topographical thread running through the gospel,...

Body, then Head - June 29, 2006
The logic of Scripture often moves from head to body: What Jesus did, His disciples are to do; we are to have the mind that was in Christ Jesus; we are to follow Him, not He us. Yet, the sequence...

Jerusalem, Jerusalem - June 29, 2006
Jerusalem is named 13x in Matthew's gospel, the last of them in 23:37 where the name is doubled in Jesus' lament (the city's name is spelled differently in 23:37). Both at the beginning and end, Jerusalem is troubled by the...

Reject Disciples, Reject Jesus - June 29, 2006
Matthew mentions Sodom three times - in 10:15 and twice in 11:23-24. In the second, He says that the cities that have refused to repent when He did miracles will be judged more harshly than Sodom; in the first, He...

Rabbi Jesus? - June 29, 2006
It's a commonplace of liberal theology that Jesus is a great teacher, but no more. Jesus is certainly a teacher in Matthew's gospel, but David Bauer points out that the only people who call him rabbi are strangers or opponents...

Things Hidden - June 28, 2006
Jesus teaches in parables to fulfill what the prophet spoke: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world" (Matt 13:35). The "prophet" cited is Asaph (Psalm 78:2), and the Psalm...

Rivers - June 27, 2006
Jesus warns at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that those who hear His words and fail to do them will collapse. The image of the collapsing house, as NT Wright has suggested, likely refers to the temple:...

Turn the cheek - June 27, 2006
James Jordan points to structural links between the death of the innocents at hands of Herod (Matt 2) death of innocent Jesus at hands of Romans (Matt 27). While Jesus escapes the first slaughter by fleeing to Egypt, he enters...

Cost of Discipleship - May 01, 2006
Jerome Neyrey summarizes the effect of Jesus' instruction to pray, give alms, and fast "in private" in terms of ancient honor systems: "In essence, the disciples must separate themselves from 'their' synagogues; they may not join other observant Judeans in...

Exhortation, Fourth Sunday of Lent - March 26, 2006
What is the cross? For Matthew, the cross is the climax of the history of Israel as that history is relived by Jesus. Matthew presents Jesus as the teacher of Israel, and accordingly his gospel is organized around five large...

Magi, the true Israel - December 04, 2005
The magi come searching for Jesus from the east, from Persia, moving west toward the promised land, as Israel did following the Babylonian exile. As they travel, they follow a star, as Israel followed the pillar of cloud and fire...

Joseph, son of Yahweh - December 04, 2005
The Israel that the Son of God entered in the incarnation was not some pristine, sinless Israel. God took on a genealogy that included harlots, adulterers, murderers, and idolaters. God did not keep his distance from his bride, but came...

Exhortation, Second Advent - December 04, 2005
Joseph is often a neglected character in the Christmas story. In paintings and crèches, he politely stands to the side so that the Madonna and child can be at the focal point. In medieval mystery plays, he was often a...

Sermon Outline, Second Advent - November 28, 2005
INTRODUCTION Mary's role in redemption has been highlighted, and sometimes distorted far beyond biblical warrant. By comparison, Joseph is the neglected member of the "holy family." Yet, Matthew focuses more attention on Joseph than on Mary, and Joseph is presented...

Jesus' Genealogy - November 25, 2005
A few further thoughts on the genealogy of Jesus: 1) Twice in Matthew's genealogy, "brothers" are mentioned: Judah (1:2) and Jeconiah (1:11). David Garland suggests that this sets up the theme of Jesus' brothers that runs through the gospel (cf....

Sermon Outline, First Advent - November 24, 2005
INTRODUCTION When Christians speak of the "holy family," they normally have in mind Jesus' "nuclear family," Joseph and Mary and his siblings. But Matthew begins with Jesus' larger family, tracing his descent from Abraham and David. THE TEXT "The book...

Structure of Matthew - April 06, 2005
The allusions to Exodus early in Matthew fit into a larger theological and literary thrust of the first gospel. Commentators have often noted that the gospel is organized around five large discourses, some of which are virtually monologues: The sermon...

Matthew 8 and Sodomy - November 01, 2004
Theodore Jennings and Tat-Siong Benny Liew have a curious article in the Fall 2004 issue of JBL. They offer an alternative interpretation of the story of the centurion of Matthew 8, an interpretation that hangs on taking "PAIS" not as...

Jesus' Masculinity in Matthew - December 18, 2003
The current issue of Semeia (#45) is devoted to "New Testament Masculinities," and is a contribution to the growing academic study of masculinity. Jerome Neyrey has an interesting article here on Jesus' masculinity in the gospel of Matthew. Two of...

Dale C. Allison, Jr., The - August 28, 2003
Dale C. Allison, Jr., The New Moses: A Matthean Typology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993). Dale Allison, a research fellow at the Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, has written a superb case study in the New Testament's use of the Old. Though...

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