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Matthew and the Margins: A Socio-Political and Religious Reading is unavailable, but you can change that!

This detailed commentary presents the Gospel of Matthew as a counter-narrative, showing that it is a work of resistance written from and for a minority community of disciples committed to Jesus, the agent of God’s saving presence. It was written and functions to shape the identity and lifestyle of the early community of Jesus’ followers as an alternative community that can resist the dominant...

relate to each other? Do they form one entity denoting judgment (a fiery spirit)? Is one positive (spirit) and the other negative (fire)? Or is each term positive and negative in representing judgment and salvation?23 This last option seems more likely. Spirit/breath signifies God’s punishment (Isa 4:4; Jer 4:11–16). But it is also a gift of God’s covenant with a holy and faithful people, who with God’s Spirit or abiding presence and a new heart know and do God’s will (Ezek 36:25–28; 39:29; Isa 32:15;
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