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In this fresh commentary, leading New Testament scholar Charles Talbert examines cultural context and theological meaning in Matthew. This commentary approaches each text in its final, canonical form, proceeding by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Each sense unit is explored in three sections: introductory matters, tracing the train of thought, and key hermeneutical and...

then it did not come from an eyewitness. The Gospel itself makes no claim about authorship (as John 21:24 does). Modern scholars regard it properly as an anonymous writing. One recent debate over whether its author was a Christian Jew (most scholars) or a Christian gentile (e.g., Nepper-Christensen 1954; Strecker 1962; Meier 1979; Sato 2001) has pretty well been settled in favor of the former claim. Another current argument over whether there was one author or the Gospel was produced by a group,
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