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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...

of Israel’s Scriptures misses Matthew’s lesson. The Gospel presents a figural reading of Jesus’s life as the master discourse.6 Through images and metaphors, he shows how Jesus walks in Israel’s shoes while also bringing them to their destination. The genealogy instructs readers that the content of Matthew’s Gospel is contained in its form. As Hans Urs von Balthasar argues, “The content [Gehalt] does not lie behind the form [Gestalt] but within it. Whoever is not capable of seeing and ‘reading’ the
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