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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...

prophetic ministry that God will punish the people for their sin by sending them into exile in Babylon, Jeremiah sounds a note of hope in chapters 30–33 by declaring that God will overcome Babylon and bring them back from exile. God’s action will reverse the situation for which Jerusalem weeps (31:16) by liberating the people. Place provides the immediate link between Jer 31:15 and Matt 2: A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children. Gen 35:16–19 and
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