Herbert W. Basser, with the editorial help of Marsha Cohen, utilizes his encyclopaedic knowledge of Judaism to navigate MatthewÂ’s Gospel. This close, original reading explicates MatthewÂ’s use of Jewish concepts and legal traditions that have not been fully understood in the pa…
In The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions , Herbert W. Basser, with the editorial help of Marsha Cohen, utilizes his encyclopaedic knowledge of Judaism to navigate Matthew¿́¿s Gospel. This close, original reading explicates Matthew¿́¿s use of Jewish concepts and legal traditi…
"My 2009 book, The Mind behind the Gospels: a Commentary to Matthew 1-14, covered the first half of the Gospel ... I decided to revise that book and integrate it into this one, a commentary on all twenty-eight chapters of Matthew's Gospel."--Preface.