Community, Law and Mission in Matthew's Gospel

by Paul Foster

Paul Foster contributes to Matthean scholarship by looking at the issues of the social location of the community, the role of law within that community and its attitude towards the gentile mission. Against the current trend towards viewing the community behind the gospel as a primarily Jewish separatist group with the central belief that Jesus was the Messiah, he comes to the conclusion that although the Matthean group originated in Judaism, nonetheless,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161482913
• ISBN13: 9783161482915
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 294 Pages