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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...

of the householder in 20:1–16 brings together a very wealthy landowner and day laborers. Tax collectors from the retainer level appear in 9:9–13. D. Duling has collected numerous references in the gospel to the large group of involuntary marginals which comprise the bottom level of society.127 But where in this urban society are we to locate the Matthean audience addressed by the gospel? While the gospel makes frequent reference to Jesus’ involvement with “involuntary marginals” and to the sending
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