The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism

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ISBN: 9780567086419 | 0567086410
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Copyright: 11/1/1998

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In this meticulously researched and compelling study, David Sim reconstructs the social setting of the Matthean community at the time the Gospel was written and traces its full history.Dr Sim argues that the Matthean community should be located in Antioch towards the latter part of the first century. He acknowledges the dispute within the early Christian movement and its importance. He defines more accurately the distinctive perspectives of the two streams of thought and their respective relationships to Judaism. A new and important work in Matthean studies.

Preface	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The social setting of the Matthean community in recent studies	p. 1
The question of location	p. 10
Judaism, Christian Judaism and Gentile Christianity	p. 12
Judaism	p. 12
The major types in the Christian Movement	p. 19
Christian Judaism and Gentile Christianity	p. 24
The plan of this book	p. 27
The date and location of the Matthean community	p. 31
The date of the Gospel	p. 31
A date prior to 100	p. 31
A date after 70	p. 33
The location of the Gospel	p. 40
Jerusalem or Palestine	p. 40
Transjordan	p. 41
Caesarea Maritima	p. 45
Phoenicia	p. 48
Alexandria	p. 49
Syria (outside Antioch)	p. 51
Antioch on the Orontes	p. 53
The History of the Christian Movement in Antioch Prior to Matthew	p. 63
The Hellenists and Antioch	p. 64
The Hellenists and the Hebrews	p. 64
The Hellenists in Antioch	p. 71
The extension of the mission by Barnabas and Paul	p. 77
The apostolic council	p. 79
The events leading to the apostolic council	p. 80
The Pauline version of the council	p. 82
The Acts version of the council	p. 88
The dispute at Antioch	p. 92
James and the circumcision party	p. 92
The message from James	p. 94
Paul's departure from Antioch	p. 100
The fate of the Antiochene Church	p. 103
Conclusions	p. 106
The Matthean Community and Formative Judaism	p. 109
Preliminary questions	p. 109
Sects and sectarianism	p. 109
Formative Judaism	p. 113
The sectarian nature of the Matthean community	p. 115
Sectarian language	p. 117
Hostility towards the Jewish leadership	p. 118
The centrality of the law	p. 123
Further sectarian tendencies	p. 139
The Matthean community within Judaism	p. 142
The relations between the Matthean community and the Jewish world	p. 150
The cause of the break with formative Judaism	p. 150
Persecution of the Matthean community	p. 151
The Jewish mission and persecution	p. 157
Conclusions	p. 162
The Matthean Community and Pauline Christianity	p. 165
The historical background	p. 166
The collection	p. 166
The deaths of Paul and James	p. 169
The effects of the Jewish war	p. 171
The Gentile Christian literature	p. 172
The Christian Jewish literature	p. 177
The implications of the evidence	p. 186
The Matthean community and Pauline Christianity	p. 188
James and the relatives of Jesus	p. 188
The disciples	p. 192
Peter	p. 196
Paul and the law-free gospel	p. 199
The Pauline mission in Antioch	p. 211
Conclusions	p. 213
The Matthean Community and the Gentile World	p. 215
The Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew	p. 216
The Gentiles in Matthew's story	p. 216
Anti-Gentile statements in Matthew	p. 226
Gentile persecution of the Matthean community	p. 231
The Matthean community and the Gentile mission	p. 236
The Gentiles in the Matthean community	p. 247
Conclusions	p. 255
The Matthean Community and Ignatius of Antioch	p. 257
Ignatius of Antioch as a successor to Paul	p. 260
Ignatius and the Pauline Epistles	p. 260
The influence of Paul on Ignatius	p. 262
The church of Ignatius	p. 269
The Matthean community and Ignatius of Antioch	p. 270
The origin of the Gentile Christian church of Ignatius	p. 270
The 'Judaising' opponents of Ignatius	p. 272
The 'Judaisers' and the Matthean community	p. 282
Conclusions	p. 286
The Fate of the Matthean Community	p. 289
Conclusions	p. 299
Bibliography	p. 303
Index of biblical references/ancient sources	p. 323
Index of modern authors	p. 339
Index of subjects	p. 345
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