Matthew within Sectarian Judaism Hardback
by John Kampen
Part of the The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library series
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A renowned scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls argues for reading the Gospel of Matthew as the product of a Jewish sect 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 or so after 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 their understanding of Jewish history and law that would sustain Jewish life at the end of the first century.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:13/08/2019
- ISBN:9780300171563
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:344 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:13/08/2019
- ISBN:9780300171563
