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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...

earliest ancestors and proceeds to his latest ancestors fits Old Testament (rather than Luke’s and Greek) genealogies (Aune 1987: 121), but Matthew’s use of “the book of the generations of” contrasts starkly with the use of that phrase in Old Testament genealogies. Most scholars agree that Matthew’s phrase depends here on the expression in the genealogies of Genesis (e.g., Allen 1977: 1; Meeks 1986: 140; Johnson 1988: 186). Yet genealogies like those in Genesis typically list a person’s descendants
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