Matthew and the Margins A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading
Carter, Warren
Matthew and the Margins A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading Warren Carter - U.S.A. Orbis Books 2003 - 636tr. paperback, illustration 24 cm - Bible and Liberation Series .
Matthew and the Margins provides readers with a provocative new commentary that emphasizes the roles of marginality and empire in the Gospel of Matthew. Verse by verse, Warren Carter presents this gospel as a counter-narrative shaping the followers of Jesus as an alternative community, resisting the authorities of both synagogue and state. He shows how the Gospel anticipates the time when Jesus' return will establish God's reign over all - including the imperial powers of Rome. Breaking Matthew into five narrative blocks, Carter presents a line by line commentary, considering historical, literary, cultural and ecclesial factors present at the time of the writing. These themes, accompanied by a survey of r studies on Matthew, are outlined in his masterful introduction.
Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible -- NT -- Gospels -- Matthew
Bible Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible -- NT -- Matthew
226.2067 / C323-W29
Matthew and the Margins A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading Warren Carter - U.S.A. Orbis Books 2003 - 636tr. paperback, illustration 24 cm - Bible and Liberation Series .
Matthew and the Margins provides readers with a provocative new commentary that emphasizes the roles of marginality and empire in the Gospel of Matthew. Verse by verse, Warren Carter presents this gospel as a counter-narrative shaping the followers of Jesus as an alternative community, resisting the authorities of both synagogue and state. He shows how the Gospel anticipates the time when Jesus' return will establish God's reign over all - including the imperial powers of Rome. Breaking Matthew into five narrative blocks, Carter presents a line by line commentary, considering historical, literary, cultural and ecclesial factors present at the time of the writing. These themes, accompanied by a survey of r studies on Matthew, are outlined in his masterful introduction.
Bible - New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible -- NT -- Gospels -- Matthew
Bible Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible -- NT -- Matthew
226.2067 / C323-W29