The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism
Subtitle: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community (Studies of the New Testament and Its World)
Publisher: T. & T. Clark Publishers
Published: November 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780567086419
Subjects: Books of the New Testament; Early Church; Judaism; Social groups & communities; Social history; Judaism And Christianity; New Testament - Single Book Studies; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Middle East; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament; Christian Theology - General; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - New Testament
Description: "In this meticulously researched study, David C. Sim reconstructs the Matthean community at the time the Gospel was written and traces its full history." "Dr. Sim demonstrates that the Matthean community should be located in Antioch in the late first century, and he argues that the history of this community can only be understood in the context of the factionalism of the early Christian movement. He identifies two distinctive and opposing Christian perspectives: the first represented by the Jerusalem church and the Matthean community, which maintained that the Christian message must be preached within the context of Judaism; and the second represented by Paul and the Pauline communities, in which Christians were not expected to observe the Jewish law. Dr. Sim reconstructs not only the conflict between Matthew's Christian Jewish community and the Pauline churches, but also its further conflicts with the Jewish and Gentile worlds in the aftermath of the Jewish war."--BOOK JACKET.