"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.
Though we find the Gospel of Matthew first in the New Testament, many scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark is older. Matthew then is often seen as an expansion of Mark, incorporating most of the content of Mark while also adding sections that contain the teachings of Jesus, …
"Metaphor and the Portrayal of the Cause(s) of Sin and Evil in the Gospel of Matthew traces the range and significance of metaphors used in Matthew for the origin and sin and evil and their congruence with key texts of the Second Temple milieu. While traditional theology has oft…
"In this book I explain in a very straightforward and unapologetic way why, if I had been in the Land of Israel in the first century, I would not have joined the circle of Jesus's disciples." Imagine yourself transported two thousand years back in time to Galilee at the moment o…
"A five-volume series, which will include each of the four canonical Gospels and a final volume on the extracanonical gospels"--Pref., v. 2.
With characteristic boldness and a creative look at long-neglected evidence, MacDonald offers an alternative reconstruction of Q and an alternative solution to the Synoptic Problem: the Q+/Papias Hypothesis. To do so, he reconstructs and interprets two lost books about Jesus: th…
A structural analysis of the Sermon on the mount
"With contributions ranging from remapping Paul within Jewish ideologies, and Paul among friends and enemies, to socio-cultural readings of Matthew, and construction of Christian Identity through stereotypes of the Scribes and Pharisees, this book provides a multi-scholar tribut…
Exegetische Aufsätze
by Luz, Ulrich
fromWissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
