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An Introduction to the New Testament sets a fresh standard for New Testament introductions. This 2005 Gold Medallion finalist takes seriously the idea that the books of the New Testament were written as pastoral responses to concrete situations. It not only gives close attention to the historical, social, cultural and rhetorical dimensions of the ancient pastoral settings, it also integrates...

Graham Stanton has correctly observed that Matthew and the communities shaped by his Gospel relate to late first-century Judaism much as a sect relates to its parent body, the group from which it has severed itself or been severed.a The tensions between Christians (especially Jewish Christians) and non-Christian Jews results from their being so closely related to one another—an intrafamily fight, as it were. The traditions about Jesus and the sayings
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