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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...

teacher that the arrival of the apocalyptic sage-messiah fulfills the hopes of Israel; this results in the unification of Jewish history. The method Matthew employs to communicate this conviction is “gospel-narration” through the use of shadow stories. Matthew as the scribe brings out treasures new and old because his teacher-sage has revealed to him the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven (11:25–30; 13:51–52). The rest of this chapter expands on each of these assertions. Conviction Israel’s hopes
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