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This dissertation attempts to give answers to the question how Matthew did view the Jerusalem temple. As the question indicates, this dissertation deals with Matthew's Sitz im Leben. Chapter 1 discusses the history of research on this topic, presuppositions inherent in the study…

The purpose of the dissertation was to examine the Pss 95/100 inclusio, as identified by David Howard, from an intertextual perspective, tracing the textual influence of the Pentateuch and Joshua for its rhetorical function in relation to the Adonai Melekh psalms so bounded. In …

Scholars such as C. Westermann, J. Blenkinsopp, J. Muilenburg, B. Childs, and C. Seitz have argued that the term "Zion/Jerusalem" in Isaiah 40–55 has a double meaning, referring to I) the people in Babylonian exile, and 2) the physical city in Judah. Recently, C. Maier and L. Ti…