This dissertation explores how Matthew's Gospel employs texts drawn from the Hebrew Scriptures in his portrayal of Jesus. Six passages (1:1–2:23; 4:1–11; 5:1–8:1; 8:16–9:38; 17:1–9; 28:16–20) provide the basis. What scriptural texts are selected? What are characteristics of thei…
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This project/dissertation describes and identifies false prophets referred to in the three occurrences in the Gospel of Matthew. As an act of ministry, the candidate conducted three seminar sessions with twenty-two individuals—leaders and lay members—to determine if the studies …
This dissertation is a full-scale investigation of Matthew's soteriology embedded in his Gospel from literary-critical and historical-critical perspectives. This dissertation consists of five main chapters. My investigation begins by reconstructing the Sitz im Leben of Matthew a…
The purpose of this study is to carefully examine the “Parable of the Unforgiving Servant” found in Matthew 18:23–35. Specifically this study seeks to show that Matthew presents Jesus' work as bringing an end to the exile which was caused by sin. Those who refused to accept God'…
This dissertation examines Matt 1:19; 5:32; and 19:9 in light of Matthew's concept of righteousness. The first chapter assesses current views regarding Matthew's concept of righteousness. In addition to providing a lexical analysis of the terms used to communicate the concept “r…
The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the use of the OT in Matthew's birth narrative. The thesis is that Matthew quoted from the OT in his birth narrative in order to draw to his readers' minds stories from the OT. Matthew was not using the OT to prove that Jesus must ha…
In recent years the community reflected in the gospel of Matthew has come under renewed investigation. The possibility of the gospel's community as a Jewish sect has been raised. This dissertation is situated in this discussion. The first chapter reviews secondary literature per…
A Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew is contained in a Fourteenth Century Jewish polemical treatise entitled Ehen Bohan and it survives in nine manuscripts. This Hebrew Matthew provided the Jewish community with a text of Matthew needed for their response to Christian prose…
To say that the first Gospel is about Jesus is to state what any reader knows from the most cursory glance at Matthew's narrative. Yet the scholarly discourse about Jesus' identity in Matthew reveals a fundamental confusion about how to articulate the identity of Jesus vis-à-vis…
This is a narrative critical study centered around the Gospel of Matthew's use of Isa 6:9–10 and related Isaianic texts. This study seeks to demonstrate the purposeful use of these Isaianic texts within a larger discussion of Matthew's use of the concept of idolatry. Chapter 1 s…
The introduction establishes the main purpose of the dissertation as an investigation of the use of debt as a metaphor for sin in the Gospel of Matthew, particularly in the exegesis of the Lord's Prayer (Matt 6:9-15), the teaching on anger (Matt 5:21-26) and the parable of the u…
The Gospel of Matthew makes use of the imagery of a common Jewish belief in an eschatological messianic banquet. This image is used in order to teach a certain theological position about the nature of the church in its relationship with Israel, Jews, and Gentiles. The question o…
This project unites hermeneutics, biblical studies, and biblical counseling to propose an approach for faithfully reading passages in the Gospel of Matthew in an effort to counsel with wisdom and discernment. Chapter 1 overviews the abundance of literature at readers’ (including…