BUILT UPON THE ROCK

Studies in the Gospel of Matthew

Edited by

Daniel M. Gurtner & John Nolland

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Built upon the rock: studies in the Gospel of Matthew /

edited by Daniel M. Gurtner & John Nolland.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-0-8028-4563-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Bible. N.T. Matthew—Criticism, interpretation, etc.

I. Gurtner, Daniel M. II. Nolland, John.

BS2555.52.B85 2008

226.2ʹ06—dc22

2007042523

www.eerdmans.com

Contents

preface

contributors

abbreviations

Matthew’s Sources—Oral or Written? A Rabbinic Analogy and Empirical Insights

Armin D. Baum

How Matthew Tells the Story: A Linguistic Approach to Matthew’s Syntax

Stephanie L. Black

Not the Law but the Messiah: Law and Righteousness in the Gospel of Matthew—An Ongoing Debate

Roland Deines

Ἀπό … ἕως and Salvation History in Matthew’s Gospel

Mervyn Eloff

Matthew and Jerusalem

R. T. France

Matthew’s Theology of the Temple and the “Parting of the Ways”: Christian Origins and the First Gospel

Daniel M. Gurtner

Matthew and Anti-Semitism

John Nolland

Holiness and Ecclesiology: The Church in Matthew

Donald A. Hagner

The Rock on Which to Build: Some Mainly Pauline Observations about the Sermon on the Mount

David Wenham

Balaam-Laban as the Key to the Old Testament Quotations in Matthew 2

David Instone-Brewer

“The Virgin Will Conceive”: Typological Fulfillment in Matthew 1:18–23

James M. Hamilton Jr.

The Rhetoric of Hearing: The Use of the Isaianic Hearing Motif in Matthew 11:2–16:20

Jeannine K. Brown

Reflections on the Writing of a Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew

R. T. France and John Nolland

bibliography

index of modern authors

index of subjects

index of ancient sources

Preface

The present volume is the product of the 2005 Tyndale Fellowship New Testament Study Group, held at Tyndale House in Cambridge on June 29 through July 1, 2005. It is the link to the Tyndale Fellowship that lies behind the title of this volume: Built upon the Rock. For to each of us a personal commitment to Jesus Christ remains the foundation of our scholarly endeavors. Each contributor is part of this confessional and scholarly community, but each is also part of the broader scholarly guild; and it is intended that the papers here presented should also make a contribution to scholarship in its broadest sense.

In Built upon the Rock: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew, some of the contributions address issues pertinent to the whole gospel, including a fresh discussion of the nature of Matthew’s sources (Baum) and an exploration of the role of grammatical features to mark emphasis (Black). Law and righteousness are classical problem areas given fresh attention ...