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This 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,...

community would have had its own structures, built up over the years,11 though there may well have been tensions between different sections of the community. In the aftermath of the war, there may equally have been significant differences within the Jewish community over what were the most appropriate policies for it to adopt towards the Romans, the city authorities and their Syrian neighbours. In that case the voice of Matthew’s group will have been one among many. But it is also perfectly possible
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