For up-to-date information, see the diaries

| Themes | Diaries | Bibliography | Key Concepts |

Time and place:

15.1.-2.4.2000, 2pm-4pm
Aleksanterinkatu 7. lecture room 7, floor 7
 

Themes

15.1.  Introduction, schedule, list of literature, course work, essay topics
22.1.  Backgrounds: problematic definitions (Judaism, Hellenism, Christianity, Jewish-Christianity), emic and etic point of view, formative Judaism, common Judaism
29.1. Introduction to the study of Matthew’s Gospel: tools for eksegesis, sources and their character, the basics of Matthew’s composition and theology.
 History of research: Matthew as a Jewish-Christian Gospel

5.2.  Earthly and heavenly kingdoms in the Gospel of Matthew (Liu Shengai)
 King Herod and the true King of the Jews in Matthew’s narrative (Liu Shengai)
12.2.  Jewish leaders in the Gospel of Matthew (Samuel Henry)
 Disciples, crowds and followers in the Gospel of Matthew (Dorotheé Henry)
19.2.  Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew I: the Wisdom of God, Messiah and Immanuel (Zahn Minghui)
 Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew II: Kyrios and the Son of Man,
26.2.  Jesus, the Temple and sacrifices in the Gospel of Matthew (Geoffrey Moore)
 The Temple and sacrifices in the Gospel of the Ebionites and in the Pseudo-Clementines
5.3. Jewish purification rites and proselyte baptism (Mirva Heijala)
 John the Baptist and the baptism in Matthew’s community
12.3. Matthew’s Jesus — A New Moses?
 Law in the Gospel of Matthew
19.3. Matthew’s community and the Qumran community — Two Jewish Sects?
 Matthew’s community — a cult movement? (Jenny Vainio)
26.3.  Matthew’s Gospel, the Gospel of Ebionites, the Gospel of Nazarenes

2.4.   Conclusion: Judaism in the Gospel of Matthew
 

Other possible topics for essays:

Reading Q in the Galilee / Matthew and Q (Perttu Nikander),
Jewish and Gentile women in Matthew’s Gospel
One or two peoples of God in Matthew’s narrative? (Kristiina Hannula)
Jesus’s commission: To Fulfill the law and the prophets (Kristiina Hannula; Henrik Watermann)
Righteousness in the Gospel of Matthew (Israel Y. Natse)
Matthew’s community from a social-scientific point of view (Jenny Vainio)

Coursework:
1 Finnish credit: Active participation, reading, class, and course diaries.
2 Finnish credits: Everything for 1 credit + essay 10-20 pages.
5 Finnish credits: Everything for 1 and 2 credits + literature