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Matthew: Introduction, Translation, and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

Matthew is the most familiar of the gospels, best known for its parables, miracle narratives, and the long Sermon on the Mount. Recognized by the early Church as the most fitting introduction to the New Testament, its special concern is to announce Jesus as the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Hence, its emphasis on the Law, on ethics based on the traditional theology of the Covenant, and on the...

early Jewish sectarian studies as well as on the critical rehabilitation of early Christian historians. Thanks to this material, we have been able to determine the kind of Aramaic spoken by Jesus to an extent never before remotely approached. As a result we have resumed the research of the senior author on the original Aramaic form of the proper names of the New Testament, begun nearly fifty years ago and continued intermittently since then. This particular research has proved to have implications
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