Judaism in the Gospel of Matthew
NT Theme course/seminar, spring 2001
 


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See also a Bibliography on Early Jewish Christianity by M. Myllykoski


*Allison, D.J.
1993 The New Moses. A Matthean Typology. Edinburgh.

Anderson, J.C.
1994 Matthew's Narrative Web. Over, and Over, and Over Again. JSNTSupp 91. Sheffield.

Bacon, B.W.
1930 Studies in Matthew. London.

Banks, R.
1975 Jesus and the Law in the Synoptic Tradition. SNTSMS 28. Cambridge - London - New York - Melbourne.

Barth, G.
19612 Das Gesetzesverständnis des Evangelisten Matthäus. G. Bornkamm und G. Barth und H. J. Held: Überlieferung und Auslegung im Matthäusevangelium. WMANT 1, 54-154. Neukirchen.
1978 Auseinandersetzungen um die Kirchenzucht im Umkreis des Matthäusevangeliums. ZNW 69, 158-177.
1981 Die Taufe in frühchritlicher Zeit. Biblisch-Theologische Studien 4. Neukirchen - Vluyn.

Barton, S.C.
1994 Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew. SNTSMS 80. Cambridge.

Bauer, D.R. and Powell, M.A. (ed.):
1996 Treasures New and Old. Contributions to Matthean Studies. Atlanta.

Beare, F. W. Commentary
1981 The Gospel according to Matthew. A Commentary. Oxford.

Beasley-Murray, G.R.
1962 Baptism in the New Testament. London.

*Betz, H. D.
1985 Essays on the Sermon on the Mount. Philadelphia.

Billerbeck, P. (and Strack, H.) Commentary
1922 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus. Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch 1. München.

Blenkinsopp, J.
1981 Interpretation and the Tendency to Sectarianism. An Aspect of Second Temple History. E.P. Sanders (ed.): Jewish and Christian Self-Definition. Volume Two. Aspects of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman Period, 1-26. London.

Bornkamm, G.
19612 Enderwartung und Kirche im Matthäusevangelium. G. Bornkamm und G. Barth und H. J. Held: Überlieferung und Auslegung im Matthäusevangelium. WMANT 1, 13-47. Neukirchen.
19612b Die Sturmstillung im Matthäusevangelium. G. Bornkamm und G. Barth und H. J. Held: Überlieferung und Auslegung im Matthäusevangelium. WMANT 1, 48-53. Neukirchen.
1983 The Authority to 'Bind' and 'Loose' in the Church in Matthew's Gospel. The Problem of Sources in Matthew's Gospel. G. Stanton (ed.): The Interpretation of Matthew. Issues in Religion and Theology 3, 85-97. Philadelphia - London

Brandenburger, E.
1980 Das Recht des Weltenrichters. Untersuchung zu Matthäus 25,31-46. SBS 99. Stuttgart.

Broer, I.
1980 Freiheit vom Gesetz und Radikalisierung des Gesetzes. Ein Beitrag zur Theologie des Evangelisten Matthäus. SBS 98. Stuttgart.

*Brooks, S. H.
1987 Matthew's Community. The evidence of his special sayings material. JSNTSup 16. Sheffield.

Burridge, R.A.
1992 What are the Gospels? A comparison with Graeco-Roman biography. SNTSMS 70. Cambridge.

Carter, W.
1993 The Crowds in Matthew's Gospel. CBQ 55, 54-67.
1994 Households and Discipleship. A Study of Matthew 19-20. JSNTSup 103. Sheffield.
2000 Matthew and the Margins. A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading.Maryknoll, New York.

Charette, B.
1992 The Theme of Recompense in Matthew's Gospel. JSNTSupp 79. Sheffield.

Christ, F.
1970 Jesus Sophia. Die Sophia-Christologie bei den Synoptikern. ATANT 57. Zürich.

Chilton, B. and Neusner, J.
1995 Judaism in the New Testament. Practicies and Beliefs. London.

Cohen, S. J. D.
1990 The Rabbinic Conversion Ceremony. JJS XLI/2, 177-203.
*1999 The Beginnings of Jewishness. Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties. Berkeley - Los Angeles - London.

Dahl, N.A.
1983 The Passion Narrative in Matthew. G. Stanton (ed.): The Interpretation of Matthew. Issues in Religion and Theology 3, 42-55. Philadelphia - London.

Davies, M.
1993 Matthew. Readings: A New Biblical Commentary. Sheffield.

Davies, W.D.
1964 The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount. Cambridge.

Davies, W.D. and Allison, D.C. Commentary
1988 A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume I. Introduction and Commentary on Matthew I-VII. ICC. Edinburgh.
1991 A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume II. Commentary on Matthew VIII-XVIII. ICC. Edinburgh.
1997 A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume I. Introduction and Commentary on Matthew XIX-XXVIII. ICC. Edinburgh.

Delling, G.
1961 Die Zueignung des Heils in der Taufe. Berlin.

Deutsch, C.
1987 Hidden Wisdom and the Easy Yoke. Wisdom, Torah and Discipleship in Matthew 11:25-30. JSNTSup 18. Sheffield.
1990 Wisdom in Matthew: Transformation of a Symbol. NovT 32, 13-47.
1996 Lady Wisdom, Jesus, and the Sages. Metaphor and Social Context in Matthew's Gospel. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

Donaldson, T.L.
1985 Jesus on the Mountain. A Study in Matthean Theology. JSNTSup 8. Sheffield.

Duling, D.C.
1995 The Matthean Brotherhood and Marginal Scribal Leadership. P.F. Esler (ed.): Modelling Early Christianity. Social-scientific studies of the New Testament in its context, 159-182. London - New York.
1983 Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament. More on Methods and Models. Semeia 29, 1-33.
1995 The Jewish Messianic Movement. From faction to sect. P.F. Esler (ed.): Modelling Early Christianity. Social-scientific studies of the New Testament in its context, 75-95. London - New York.

Esler, P.F.
*1987 Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts. The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology. SNTSMS 57. Cambridge.
*1994 The First Christians in their Social Worlds. Social-scientific approaches to New Testament interpretation. London - New York.

Forkman, G.
1972 The Limits of the Religious Community. Expulsion from the religious community within the Qumran sect, within rabbinic Judaism and within primitive Christianity. ConBNT 5. Lund.

Frankemölle, H.
1974 Jahwebund und Kirche Christi. Studien zur Form- und Traditionsgeschichte des 'Evangeliums' nach Matthäus. NTAbh. Erg.Bd. 10. Münster.

Gnilka, J.
1986 Das Matthäusevangelium, I Teil (1:1-13:58). Herder I/1. Freiburg - Basel - Wien. Commentary
1988 Das Matthäusevangelium, II Teil (14:1-28:20). Herder I/2. Freiburg - Basel - Wien.

Grundmann, W. Commentary
1968 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus. THKNT I. Berlin.

Guelich, R.A.
1982 The Sermon on the Mount. A Foundation for Understanding. Waco, Texas.

Gundry, R. H. Commentary
1982 Matthew. A Commentary on His Literary and Theological Art. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1994 Matthew, A Commentary on His Handbook for a Mixed Church under Persecution. Second edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Hagner, D.A. Commentary
1993 Matthew 1-13. WBC 33A. Dallas,Texas.
1995 Matthew 14-28.WBC 33 B. Dallas, Texas

Hare, D.R.A.
1967 The Theme of Jewish Persecution of Christians in the Gospel according to St Matthew. SNTSMS 6. Cambridge.
1990 The Son of Man Tradition. Minneapolis.

*Hartman, L.
1997 'Into the Name of the Lord Jesus.' Baptism in the Early Church. Studies of The New Testament and its World. Edinburgh.

Held, H.J.
19612 Matthäus als Interpret der Wundergeschichten. G. Bornkamm und G. Barth und H. J. Held: Überlieferung und Auslegung im Matthäusevangelium. WMANT 1, 155-287. Neukirchen.

Hengel, M.
1987 Zur matthäischen Bergpredigt und ihrem jüdischen Hintergrund.TRu 52/4, 327-400.
*1996 Judaica et Hellenistica . Kleine Schriften I. WUNT 90. Tübingen.

Hengel, M. and Deines, R.
1995 E.P. Sanders' 'Common Judaism', Jesus, and the Pharisees. Review article of Jewish Law from Jesus to Mishnah and Judaism: Practice and Belief by E.P. Sanders. JTS 46, 1-70.

*Häkkinen, S.
1999 Köyhät Kerettiläiset. Ebionit kirkkoisien teksteissä. Suomalaisen teologisen kirjallisuusseuran julkaisuja. Helsinki.

Hill, D.
1976 False Prophets and Carismatics: Structure and Interpretation in Matthew 7:15-23. Bib 57, 327-348.
1990repr The Gospel of Matthew. Reprinted (= 1972). The New Century Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan - London

Hoffmann, P.
1972 Studien zur Theologie der Logienquelle. NTAbh. Erg.Bd. 8. Münster.

Holmberg, B.
1990 Sociology and the New Testament. An Appraisal. Minneapolis.

Howell, D.B.
1990 Matthew's Inclusive Story. A Study in the Narrative Rhetoric of the First Gospel. JSNTSupp 42. Sheffield.

Hummel, R.
1963 Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Kirche und Judentum im Matthäusevangelium. BEvT 33. München.

Jacobson, A.D.
1992 The First Gospel. An Introduction to Q. Sonoma, CA.

Johnson, B.
1963 On Church and Sect. American Sociological Review 28, 539-549.
1971 Church and Sect Revisited. JSSR 10, 124-137.

Jones, I.H.
1995 The Matthean Parables. A Literary and Historical Commentary. NovTSup LXXX. Leiden - New York - Köln.

Jones, S.F.
1982 The Pseudo-Clementines. A History of Research, Part I-II, SecCen 1, 1-33; 2, 63-96.
1995 An Ancient Jewish Christian Source on the History of Christianity. Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions 1.27-71. Atlanta, Georgia.

Kiilunen, J.
1989 Das Doppelgebot der Liebe in synoptischer Sicht. Ein redaktionskritischer Versuch. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae B 250. Helsinki.
1991 Der nachfolgewillige Schriftgelehrte. Matthäus 8:19-20 im Verständnis des Evangelisten. NTS 37, 268-279.

Kim, M.-S.
1990 Die Trägergruppe von Q. Sozialgeschichtliche Forschung zur Q-Überlieferung in den synoptischen Evangelien. Wissenschaftliche Beiträge aus Europäischen Hochschulen. 01/1. Hamburg.

Kingsbury, J. D.
1969 The Parables of Jesus in Matthew 13. A Study in Redaction-criticism. London.
*19882 Matthew as Story. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Philadelphia.
1993 The Significance of the Cross within the Plot of Matthew's Gospel. A Study in Narrative Criticism. C. Focant (ed.): The Synoptic Gospels. Source Criticism and the New Literary Criticism. BETL CX, 263-279. Leuven.

Klijn, A.F.J.
1992 Jewish-Christian Gospel Tradition. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 17. Leiden: Brill.

Klijn, A.F.J. and Reinink, G.J.
1973 Patristic Evidence for Jewish-Christian Sects. Supp.NT 36. Leiden

Kloppenborg, J.S.
1987 The Formation of Q. Trajectories in Ancient Wisdom Collections. Studies in Antiquity and Christianity. Philadelphia.
1988 Q-Parallels. Synopsis, Critical Notes & Concordance. Foundations & Facets. Sonoma, California.

*Kloppenborg Verbin, J.S.
2000 Excavating Q. The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel. Minneapolis.

Knowles, M.
1993 Jeremiah in Matthew's Gospel. The Rejected-Prophet Motif in Matthean Redaction. JSNTSupp 68. Sheffield.

*Kupp, D.D.
1996 Matthew's Emmanuel. Divine Presence and God's People in the First Gospel. SNTSMS 90. Cambridge

Kynes, W.L.
1991 A Christology of Solidarity. Jesus as Representative of His People in Matthew. Lanham, Maryland.

Levine, A-J.
1988 The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Salvation History. Studies in Bible and Early Christianity, Volume 14. Lewiston - Queenston - Lampeter.

*Lim, T.H. (ed.)
2000 The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Historical Context. Edinburgh.

Luomanen, P.
1998 Entering the Kingdom of Heaven. A Study on the Structure of Matthew's View of Salvation. WUNT 2, 101. Tübingen.
1998 Corpus Mixtum. An Appropriate Description of Matthew's Community? JBL 117, 469-480.

Luz, U.
1978 Die Erfüllung des Gesetzes bei Matthäus (Mt 5:17-20). ZTK 75, 398-435.
1981 Das Gesetz im Frühjudentum; Das Neue Testament. U. Luz und R. Smend: Gesetz. Biblische Konfrontationen 1015, 45-139,148-156. Stuttgart.
1983 The Disciples in the Gospel according to Matthew. G. Stanton (ed.): The Interpretation of Matthew. Issues in Religion and Theology 3, 98-127. Philadelphia - London.
19892 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus (Mt 1-7). 2., durchges. Aufl. EKKNT I/1. Neukirchen-Vluyn / Zürich-Braunschweig. Commentary
1990 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus (Mt 8-17). EKKNT I/2. Neukirchen-Vluyn - Zürich - Braunschweig. Commentary
*1993 Die Jesusgeschichte des Matthäus. Neukirchen -Vluyn.
1997 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus (Mt 18-28). EKKNT I/3. Neukirchen-Vluyn - Zürich - Braunschweig. Commentary

Malina, B.J. and Rohrbaugh, R.L.
1992 Social Science Commentary on Synoptic Gospels. Minneapolis.

Malina, B.J. and Neyrey, J.H.
1988 Calling Jesus Names. The Social Value of Labels in Matthew. Sonoma, California.

Marguerat, D.
1981 Le Jugement dans l'Evangile de Matthieu. Le Monde de la Bible. Genève.

Marxsen, W.
1989 'Christliche' und christliche Ethik im Neuen Testament. (ET: New Testament Foundations for Christian Ethics. Edinburgh, 1993). Gütersloh.

McKnight, S.
1991 A Light among the Gentiles. Jewish Missionary Activity in the Second Temple Period. Minneapolis.

*Meeks, W.E.
1983 The First Urban Christians. The World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven -London.

Meier, J. P.
1976 Law and History in Matthew's Gospel. AnBib 71. Rome.

Minear, P.
1974 The Disciples and the Crowds in the Gospel of Matthew. ATR Supp. series 3, 28-44.

*Mohrlang, R.
1984 Matthew and Paul. A Comparison of Ethical Perspectives. SNTSMS 48. Cambridge.

Myllykoski, M. - Luomanen. P.
1999 Varhaisen juutalaiskristillisyyden jäljillä. TAik 104/4, 327-348.

Nepper-Christensen, P.
1958 Das Matthäusevangelium. Ein Judenchristliches Evangelium? Acta Theologica Danica I. Aarhus.
1985 Die Taufe im Matthäusevangelium. Im Lichte der Traditionen über Johannes der Täufer. NTS 31, 189-207.

Oepke, A.
1974 ba/ptw, bapti/zw. TDNT, 556-560.

Orton, D.E.
1989 The Understanding Scribe. Matthew and the Apocalyptic Ideal. JSNTSupp. 25. Sheffield.

*Overman, J.A.
1990 Matthew's Gospel and Formative Judaism. The Social World of the Matthean Community. Minneapolis.

Pamment, M.
1981 The Kingdom of Heaven According to the First Gospel. NTS 27, 211-232.

Powell, M. A.
1992 The Plot and Subplots of Matthew's Gospel. NTS 38, 187-204.
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Pritz, R.A.
1982 The Jewish Christian Sect of the Nazarenes and the Mishnah. -- Proceedings of the 8th World Congress of Jewish Studies. Division A (1982). 125-130.
*1988 Nazarene Jewish Christianity. From the End of the New Testament Period until its Disappearance in the Fourth Century. Studia Post-Biblica 37. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University; Leiden..

*Przybylski, B.
1980 Righteousness in Matthew and his world of thought. SNTSMS 41. Cambridge.

Reumann, J.
1982 'Righteousness' in the New Testament. 'Justification' in the United States Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue. With responses by J.A. Fitzmyer and J.D. Quinn. Philadelphia - Ramsey, New York.

Saldarini, A.J.
1994 Matthew's Christian-Jewish Community. Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. Chicago - London.

Sand, A.
1986 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus. Übersetzt und erklärt von A. Sand. RNT. Regensburg. Commentary

*Sanders, E. P.
1989 Paul and Palestinian Judaism. A Comparison of Patterns of Religion. Third Impression (= 19771). London.
1989b5 Jesus and Judaism. Fifth Printing (= 19851). Philadelphia.
1990 Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah. Five Studies. London - Philadelphia.
1992 Judaism. Practice & Belief 63 BCE - 66 CE. London - Philadelphia.

Schenk, W.
1987 Die Sprache des Matthäus. Die Text-Konstituenten in ihren makro- und mikrostrukturellen Relationen. Göttingen.

Schnackenburg, R.
1985 Matthäusevangelium 1:1-16:20. Kommentar zum Neuen Testament mit der Einheitsübersetzung. Die Neue Echter Bibel I/1. Würzburg. Commentary
1987 Matthäusevangelium 16:21-28:20. Kommentar zum Neuen Testament mit der Einheitsübersetzung. Die Neue Echter Bibel I/2. Würzburg. Commentary

Schulz, S.
1972 Q. Die Spruchquelle der Evangelisten. Zürich.
1976 Die Mitte der Schrift. Der Frühkatholizismus im Neuen Testament als Herausforderung an den Protestantismus. Stuttgart - Berlin.

Schweizer, E.
19864 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus. Übersetzt und erklärt von E. Schweizer. NTD 2. Göttingen - Zürich.

Scroggs, R.
1975 The Earliest Christian Communites as Sectarian Movement. J. Neusner (ed.): Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults. Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty, Part Two. Early Christianity, 1-23. Leiden.

Seeley, D.
1994 Deconstructing the New Testament. Biblical Interpretation Series 5. Leiden - New York - Köln.

Smith, C.W.F.
1963 The Mixed State of the Church in Matthew's Gospel. JBL 82, 149-168.

Stanton, G. N.
*1993repr. A Gospel for a New People. Studies in Matthew. (First published 1992). Edinburgh.
1994 Revisiting Matthew's Communities. SBLSP 33, 9-23.

Strecker, G.
1962 Der Weg der Gerechtigkeit. Untersuchung zur Theologie des Matthäus. FRALNT 82. Göttingen.
19662 Der Weg der Gerechtigkeit. Untersuchung zur Theologie des Matthäus. Zweite, durchgesehene, um einen Nachtrag erweiterte Auflage. FRALNT 82. Göttingen.
1984 Die Bergpredigt. Ein exegetischer Kommentar. Göttingen.

Suggs, M.J.
1970 Wisdom, Christology and Law in Matthew's Gospel. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Syreeni, K.
1987 The Making of the Sermon on the Mount. A procedural analysis of Matthew's redactoral activity. Part I: Methodology & Compositional Analysis. AASF Diss 44. Helsinki.
1990 Matthew, Luke and the Law. A study in hermeneutical exegesis. T. Veijola (ed.): The Law in the Bible and in its Environment. Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 51, 126-155. Helsinki - Göttingen.
1990b Between Heaven and Earth: On the Structure of Matthew's Symbolic Universe. JSNT 40, 3-13.
1994 Separation and Identity. Aspects of the Symbolic World of Matt 6.1-18. NTS 40, 522-541.

Syreeni, K. - Luomanen, P.
1997 Matteuksen evankeliumi. Myllykoski, M. - Järvinen, A. (ed.): Varhaiskristilliset evankeliumit, 183-235. Helsinki.

Taylor, J.E.
1997 The Immerser. John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism. Grand Rapids, Michigan - Cambridge.

Theissen, G.
1992 The Gospels in Context. Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition. Edinburgh.
1993 Social Reality and the Early Christians. Theology, Ethics, and the World of the New Testament. (Translated by Margaret Kohl). Edinburgh.

Trilling, W.
1959 Das wahre Israel. Studien zur Theologie des Matthäusevangeliums. ETS 7. Leipzig.
1960 Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Gleichnisses vom Hochzeitsmahl Mt 22:1-14. BZ 4, 251-265.
19643 Das wahre Israel. Studien zur Theologie des Matthäusevangeliums. SANT 10. München

Uro, R.
1987 Sheep among the Wolves. A Study on the Mission Instructions of Q. AASF Diss. 47. Helsinki.
1995 John the Baptist and the Jesus Movement. What Does Q Tell Us?: The Gospel Behind Gospels. Current Studies on Q, 231-257. Leiden - New York - Köln.

Webb, R.L.
1991 John the Baptizer and Prophet. A Socio-Historical Study. JSNTSup 62. Sheffield.

White, L.J.
1986 Grid and Group in Matthew's Community: The Righteousness/Honor Code in the Sermon on the Mount. Semeia 35, 61-90.

Wiefel, W. Commentary
1998 Das Evangelium nach Matthäus.THKNT 1. Leitzig.

Wilson, B.R.
1967 Patterns of Sectarianism. Organisation and Ideology in Social and Religious Movements. London.
1973 Magic and the Millenium. A Sociological Study of Religious Movements of Protest among Tribal and Third-World Peoples. London.
1982 Religion in Sociological Perspective. Oxford - New York.

Windisch, H.
1929 Der Sinn der Bergpredigt. Ein Beitrag zum Problem der richtigen Exegese. Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 16. Leipzig.