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Matthew, Disciple and Scribe: The First Gospel and Its Portrait of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Patrick Schreiner provides a fresh look at the Gospel of Matthew, highlighting the unique contribution Matthew’s rich and multilayered portrait of Jesus makes to understanding the connection between the Old and New Testaments. Drawing from Matthew 13:52, Schreiner understands the author of the Gospel as a “discipled scribe” who brings out treasures new and old from his teacher. Jesus, as a...

Scriptures’ promise of a sapiential messiah, (2) the titles given to Jesus and his opponents in the First Gospel, (3) the specific content of the teaching of Jesus in Matthew, and (4) the immediate context of chapter 13. First, Jewish literature looked forward to a sage-messiah. Job asks where wisdom and understanding are to be found (Job 28:12). Enoch claims that wisdom found no dwelling place on the earth (1 En. 42.2). The prophets therefore foretold the arrival of wisdom. Isaiah predicted that
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