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The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary on Matthew offers a unique interpretive approach that focuses on the socio-historical context of the gospel and the nature of Matthew’s exhortation to his first-century Christian audience. By merging a careful study of Matthew’s gospel in relation to the social context of the ancient Mediterranean world with a detailed look at what we know of first-century Jewish-Christian...

appropriate response to the violence of oppression they experienced. Because most Jews expected a final war against the Gentiles to culminate this age and inaugurate their redemption, many would have thought of the kingdom as belonging to the justly violent, what some call social bandits (cf. 11:12). Although the Essenes probably did not participate in revolts (pace Simon 1967: 62–65), even they clearly anticipated a final war in which they would participate (1QM). But Jesus promises the kingdom
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