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The kingdom of heaven and Matthew 10
This article proposes that the mission discourse in Matthew 10 is a single mission assignment that covers two distinct time periods when the gospel of the kingdom is preached.
Jacob J. Scholtz
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The superior authority of Jesus in Matthew to interpret the Torah
The arguments posed in this article serve to demonstrate the underlying conflict and struggle for authority in the Matthean Gospel. This struggle signifies part of the debate of those days about the trustworthy keepers of the Torah. Whilst Josephus wrote
Francois P. Viljoen
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Righteousness and identity formation in the Sermon on the Mount
Righteousness is an important term in the first gospel and has a significant concentration in the Sermon on the Mount. The argument in this article is that the first gospel has a community building function.
Francois P. Viljoen
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Berg en huis as primêre metafore in die Matteus-evangelie
Mountain and house as primary metaphors in the Gospel of Matthew The aim of this article is to show that mountain and house are signifi-cant theological spaces of interest.
G.J. Volschenk
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Several theologians unanimously accorded well with the notion that the writer of the Gospel of Matthew was a pastoral theologian. Nevertheless, the pastoral dimension of Matthew 22:32 has not been subjected to much scrutiny. In the text, Jesus celebrated
Pelita H. Surbakti, Esther W. Andangsari
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Codex Sinopensis (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, supplément grec 1286; Gregory-Aland O/023) is one of the earliest examples of an illuminated gospel book.
Elijah Hixson
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This article provides a comparative analysis of certain lexical and grammatical peculiarities in the Catholic and Orthodox editions of the Belarusian translation of Chapters 1 and 2 of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Yauhen Pankou
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The Gospel of Matthew and women
Matthew obviously reveals no concern with gender roles and issues about female leadership. This Gospel simply perceives such issues from the perspective of conventional patriarchal terms within the Roman household ideology, at best believing ...
P.J.J. Botha
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The greatest wish of the Baeda l people, or South Koreans, living in the Korean Peninsula is the unification of Korea. However, even when it has been 70 years since the outbreak of the Korean War, the two Koreas that used to be one nation are still in ...
In-Cheol Shin
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Power and authority in Matthew’s gospel
Besides the strenuous relation of Matthew’s community with non-Christian kinfolk, his text also reveals an underlying conflict with Roman Imperial ideology. Herod, Antipas and Pilate specifically impersonate this foreign domination. Apparently these figures have unlimited power which leaves Jesus and his followers as exposed victims. Yet, on the deeper
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