The Gospel of Matthew in its Roman Imperial Context
Edited by
John Riches
David C. Sim
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A Reluctant Provincial: Josephus and the Roman Empire in Jewish War
Empire: Theories, Methods, Models
A state of tension: Rome in the New Testament
‘Thus You Will Know Them By Their Fruits’: The Roman Characters of the Gospel of Matthew
Matthew’s Missionary Strategy in Colonial Perspective
Matthaean Christology in Roman Imperial Key: Matthew 1.1
Warren Carter—St Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri
Dennis C. Duling—Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
Philip Esler—St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews
Philip Esler—St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews
James S. McLaren—Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Peter Oakes—University of Manchester
John Riches—University of Glasgow
David C Sim—Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
Dorothy Jean Weaver—Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, Virginia
AB Anchor Bible
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JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
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NRSV New Revised Standard Version
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About The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial ContextThis collection of scholarly essays tackles a number of questions based on Matthew’s gospel. In what sense does Matthew’s Gospel reflect the colonial situation in which the community found itself after the fall of Jerusalem and the subsequent humiliation of Jews across the Roman Empire? To what extent was Matthew seeking to oppose Rome’s claims to authority and sovereignty over the whole world, to set up alternative systems of power and society, to forge new senses of identity? If Matthew’s community felt itself to be living on the margins of society, where did it see the centre as lying? In Judaism or in Rome? And how did Matthew’s approach to such problems compare with that of Jews who were not followers of Jesus Christ and with that of others, Jews and Gentiles, who were followers? |
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