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The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

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,...

deviant by other Jews (Matt. 5:11 might be thought to indicate that such stigmatization had occurred, but it is not specific about who was doing the labelling). It is true that in Matthew’s Gospel (23!) there is evidence of a fierce polemic on the part of Matthew’s community against the scribes and the Pharisees. This may be evidence that Matthew was responding to similar forms of negative labelling by the dominant Jewish group, but direct evidence is lacking. It is also true that there are commonalities
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