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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...

Preface This reading of Matthew is a selective reading. I do not attempt, as some recent commentaries do, to be “encyclopedic.”1 I recognize that all readings, including this one, are perspectival, partial, and shaped by the questions, experiences, and location of various communities of readers. I am concerned with some questions but not with others. I recognize that Matthew can be read in various ways and that any one reading can be enriched by other readings. This reading, then, like Matthew’s
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