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In this informative guide, John K. Riches concentrates on the literary origins, character, and history of Matthew’s Gospel. He is interested in oral traditions and the way truth is conveyed, the theological positions adopted by Matthew, the Gospel author’s Christology, and the reception of Matthew’s Gospel in the early church.

Sermon on the Mount (a feature Matthew has developed, contrast Luke’s three occurrences with Matthew’s six) Jesus contrasts his teaching with what they have heard of old. In the controversy over divorce, Jesus’ indicates that Moses’ teaching is given for the hardness of their hearts and is to be replaced by his own re-emphasis of the creator’s purposes in creating male and female. Again, in the transfiguration, while Jesus is associated with Moses and Elijah, he is also singled out by the divine
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