Matthew within sectarian Judaism / John Kampen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kampen, John, author.

Series:

Anchor Yale Bible reference library

The Anchor Yale Bible reference library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Matthew--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Matthew.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Interfaith relations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 320 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

Summary:

In this masterful study of what has long been considered the "most Jewish" gospel, John Kampen deftly argues that the gospel of Matthew advocates for a distinctive Jewish sectarianism, rooted in the Jesus movement. He maintains that the writer of Matthew produced the work within an early Jewish sect, and its narrative contains a biography of Jesus which can be used as a model for the development of a sectarian Judaism in Lower Syria, perhaps Galilee, toward the conclusion of the first century CE. Rather than viewing the gospel of Matthew as a Jewish-Christian hybrid, Kampen considers it a Jewish composition that originated among the later followers of Jesus a generation of so afer the disciples. This method of viewing the work allows readers to understand what it might have meant for members of a Jesus movement to promote an understanding of Jewish history and law that would sustain Jewish life at the end of the first century.

Contents:

Introduction

Matthew and the First-Century Jewish World

Matthew within Jewish Sectarianism

The Polemic of the Sermon on the Mount

Sectarian Wisdom

Communal Organization and Discipline

Jesus and His Opponents

Commissioning the Sect

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and indexes.

ISBN:

0300171560

9780300171563

OCLC:

1055263165