Reference and Rhetoric in the Gospel of Matthew (original) (raw)
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2014
This article summarises and comments on the book Studies in Matthew's Gospel: Literary design, intertextuality, and social setting, by Wim Weren, published during 2014. The essence of this book is all about meaning: the meaning of a structure, texts, and consequently the understanding of the Gospel of Matthew. For Weren, 'Meaning is the result of the interplay between a textual unit and such other factors as language, literary context, and cultural setting'. This relates to the three parts of the content of this monograph. His approach in studying Matthew comes from three perspectives: firstly intratextuality, then intertextuality, and finally extratextuality. He has deliberately chosen this order of successive steps so that they complement each other.
Wim J.C. Weren, studies in Matthew’s Gospel: Literary design, intertextuality, and social setting
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2015
This article summarises and comments on the book Studies in Matthew’s Gospel: Literary design, intertextuality, and social setting, by Wim Weren, published during 2014. The essence of this book is all about meaning: the meaning of a structure, texts, and consequently the understanding of the Gospel of Matthew. For Weren, ‘Meaning is the result of the interplay between a textual unit and such other factors as language, literary context, and cultural setting’. This relates to the three parts of the content of this monograph. His approach in studying Matthew comes from three perspectives: firstly intratextuality, then intertextuality, and finally extratextuality. He has deliberately chosen this order of successive steps so that they complement each other.
Religious Studies Review, 2013
most important and unifying poetic image. Chapter 2 argues that fama is the glue holding together Lucan's disjointed text, and that the fame of the poet, in particular, is the epic's overriding concern. Chapter 3 proposes that Lucan's sententiae can be excerpted and read in isolation as a guide to the epic's central themes and paradoxes. Dinter is at his best when invoking folklore theory to explain the mechanics of Lucan's "antiproverbs." Chapter 4 argues that verbal and thematic repetition help convey the broader leitmotif of civil war's limitlessness and perpetuity. Arguments are well signposted, but often dense, and many seem to beg for more in-depth analysis than they receive. Typographical errors are few. Although some will question Dinter's decision to analyze sententiae out of context, his book remains an impressive and learned study that largely succeeds in its attempt to explore and explain the most striking features of Lucan's poetic artistry.
The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John, Intertextual Connections in Three Case Studies
Abstract from: «The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of John: Intertextual Connections in three Case Studies (Matt 27:49 // John 19:34; Matt 27:55-56 // John 19:25-27; Matt 5:32 // John 7:53–8:11)», in A. DESTRO – M. PESCE (ed.), Texts, Practices, and Groups. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the History of Jesus’ Followers in the First Two Centuries, First Annual Meeting of Bertinoro (2-4 October 2014), Brepols, Turnhout 2017, 247-268
The Gospel of Matthew: A Hypertextual Commentary
Peter Lang, 2017
This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of Luke, but also, in a strictly sequential way, of the Acts of the Apostles. This strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains the Matthean relocations of the Marcan and Lucan material, numerous Matthean modifications thereof, and many surprising features of the Matthean Gospel. Critical explanations of such features, which are offered in this monograph, ensure the reliability of the new solution to the synoptic problem.
The Gospels' use of the Old Testament is a fruitful area of study. Especially in the last thirty years, there has been an abundance of studies analyzing the many quotations and allusions to Scripture found in the four gospels. Most of these studies try to do what is most important: discover how the particular OT references and their contexts shed light on the evangelists' meaning. What I would like to do in this study is to ask a slightly different question, one that builds on the detailed exegetical studies that are already available. 1 How does Scripture function in the narrative of each Gospel? If we apply literary skills to the evangelists' use of Scripture, what does it tell us about how Scripture contributes to each narrative? And then what does such a literary analysis suggest about the evangelists' theology, especially their views on Jesus and the Scripture?
Studies in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
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Table of Contents "Matthew’s Theology" (pp. 2–14); Previously unpublished. "On Interpreting Matthew’s Editorial Comments" (pp. 15–24); Previously published in Westminster Theological Journal 47 (1985), 319–328. "Salvation in Matthew" (pp. 25–31); Previously published in Society of Biblical Literature 2000 Seminar Papers (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), 402–414. "A Response to John Heil’s Response to My 'Salvation in Matthew'” (pp. 32–35); Previously unpublished. "A Responsive Evaluation of the Social History of the Matthean Community in Roman Syria" (pp. 36–38); Previously published in The Social History of the Matthean Community in Roman Syria, ed. David L. Balch (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991), 62–67. "In Defense of the Church in Matthew as a Corpus Mixtum" (pp. 39–51); Previously published in Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 91 (2000), 153–165. "Review of Matthew’s Advice to a Divided Community: Mt. 17:22–18, 35, by William G. Thompson" (pp. 52); Previously published in Interpretation 26 (1972), 99–100. "Review of Wisdom, Christology, and Law in Matthew’s Gospel, by M. Jack Suggs" (pp. 53); Previously published in Interpretation 27 (1973), 369. "H. D. Betz’s Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount" (pp. 54–77); Previously published in Critical Review of Books in Religion 1997 10 (1997), 39–57. "A Response to 'Matthew and Midrash'” (pp. 78–93); Previously published in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 26 (1983), 41–56. "A Surrejoinder to Douglas J. Moo" (pp. 94–109); Previously published in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 26 (1983), 71–86. "A Response to 'Methodological Unorthodoxy'” (pp. 110–115); Previously published in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 26 (1983), 95–100. "A Surrejoinder to Norman L. Geisler" (pp. 116–122); Previously published in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 26 (1983), 109–115. "A Response to Some Criticisms of Matthew: A Commentary on His Literary and Theological Art" (pp. 123–175) [presented at an annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society]; Appendix I: A Response to Royce Gruenler’s “Observations on Matthew”: New Approaches to Jesus and the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1982) 245–51); Appendix II: Corrections to Be Made in Matthew: A Commentary on His Literary and Theological Art; Postscript on Criticisms by Douglas J. Moo; Previously unpublished. "On True and False Disciples in Matthew 8:18–22" (pp. 176–184); Previously published in New Testament Studies 40 (1994), 433–441. "Matthew’s Peter, a False Disciple and Apostate: Questions and Answers" (pp. 185–194); Previously published in Expository Times 127/9 (June, 2016), 441–444. "The Narrative Framework of Matthew 16:17–19" (pp. 195–203); Previously published in Novum Testamentum 7 (1964), 1–9. "Spinning the Lilies and Unravelling the Ravens: An Alternative Reading of Q 12:22b–31 and P. Oxy. 655" (pp. 204–225); Previously published in New Testament Studies 48 (2002), 159–180. "The Refusal of Matthean Foreign Bodies to Be Exorcised from Luke 9:22, 10:25–28" (pp. 226–235); Previously published in Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 75 (1999), 104–122. "Matthean Foreign Bodies in Agreement of Luke with Matthew against Mark: Evidence that Luke Used Matthew" (pp. 236–264); Previously published in The Four Gospels 1992: Festschrift Frans Neirynck, ed. F. Van Segbroeck et al., Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 100 (Leuven: Leuven University Press/Peeters, 1992), 1467–1495. "A Rejoinder on Matthean Foreign Bodies in Luke 10:25–28" (pp. 265–276); Previously published in Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 71 (1995), 139–150.