Matthew Within Sectarian Judaism
An Examination
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Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28709658M
- ISBN-139780300171563
- OCLC Control Number1055263165
- Library of Congress Control Number2018957149
Classifications
- LCCBS2575.52 .K36 2019
Description
In this masterful study of what has long been considered the "most Jewish" gospel, John Kampen deftly argues that the gospel of Matthew advocates for a distinctive Jewish sectarianism, rooted in the Jesus movement. He maintains that the writer of Matthew produced the work within an early Jewish sect, and its narrative contains a biography of Jesus which can be used as a model for the development of a sectarian Judaism in Lower Syria, perhaps Galilee, toward the conclusion of the first century CE. Rather than viewing the gospel of Matthew as a Jewish-Christian hybrid, Kampen considers it a Jewish composition that originated among the later followers of Jesus a generation of so afer the disciples. This method of viewing the work allows readers to understand what it might have meant for members of a Jesus movement to promote an understanding of Jewish history and law that would sustain Jewish life at the end of the first century.
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