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For many years, the well-received first edition of this commentary has offered readers a way to look at scriptural texts that combines historical, narrative, and contemporary interests. Carter explores Matthew by approaching it from the perspective of the “authorial audience”—by identifying with and reading along with the audience imagined by the author. This newly updated second edition focuses...

Throughout this book we have employed two methods (or criticisms) for understanding Matthew’s gospel. Our main method has been a form of narrative or literary criticism known as audience-oriented or reader-response criticism. We have also used a subsidiary method of historical criticism, redaction criticism, particularly in chapters 2–6. This appendix discusses the purposes, strengths, and limitations of each method or approach. I suggest that both methods
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