The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew (New Testament Theology)

Matthew's Gospel is the most significant Jewish-Christian document of the New Testament. Ulrich Luz both outlines and elucidates the story told in the Gospel, emphasizing its focal points: the Sermon on the Mount, the miracles, the renunciation of possessions, and particularly the theology of judgment by works, an idea that represents both a challenge, in its quest for a church set apart from non-Christians by deeds alone, and a burden, through its traumatic origin in the breach between Matthew's community and the Israelite majority.

Religion & Spirituality

Luz, Ulrich

Christian Books & Bibles

Cambridge University Press

Matthew's Gospel is the most significant Jewish-Christian document of the New Testament. Ulrich Luz both outlines and elucidates the story told in the Gospel, emphasizing its focal points: the Sermon on the Mount, the miracles, the renunciation of possessions, and particularly the theology of judgment by works, an idea that represents both a challenge, in its quest for a church set apart from non-Christians by deeds alone, and a burden, through its traumatic origin in the breach between Matthew's community and the Israelite majority.

In this provocative book, Ulrich Luz points the way beyond the limitations of the historical-critical method as it has been practiced during the past two centuries. He demonstrates the richness of the insights that can be gained when the interpreter considers a variety of effects and influences that a text has had in subsequent history, a method of inquiry he calls Wirkungsgeschichte. This distinctive approach, which Luz so brilliantly exhibits in his multi-volume commentary on Matthew, is here applied to the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 10, and Matthew 16:18. Insights from the ancient fathers, from Scholastics, from Reformers and Anabaptists, and from many others are adduced to demonstrate the importance of the history of Christian thought for the interpretation of biblical texts.

Matthew in History: Interpretation, Influence, and Effects

Fortress Press

Encountering Jesus & Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings

Themes include the relative importance of Jesus and the Buddha within Christianity and Buddhism and their different perspectives on the self, the self's future, love, and ethics. They explore Jesus' and the Buddha's different notions of passion and suffering, meditation, prayer, and commitment to the world, history, and community.

Michaels, Axel

Ulrich, Luz

Buddhism

In this third volume, Luz brings his superlative analysis of Matthew's Gospel to a close. He is renowned for both his discerning exegetical insights as well as his tracing of the effects the text has had throughout history - in theological argument, art, and literature. This final section provides in-depth treatment of Jesus' final days - his entry into Jerusalem, the Passion Narrative, and post-resurrection appearances.

Matthew 21-28 (Hermeneia)

This is the second of a three-volume commentary on the gospel of Matthew from Europes leading Matthew scholar. Volume 1 Matthew 17 was previously published in the Continental Commentaries series. Luzs commentary is especially noteworthy, not only for his incisive exegesis, but also his keen eye for the importance of the history of interpretation and his attention to the relevance of the New Testament for contemporary Christian ethics. This commentary includes excursuses on Son of David; Matthews Interpretation of the Parables; Peter in the Gospel of Matthew; and Son of Man. 
Hermeneia Editorial Board 
OLD TESTAMENT Frank Moore Cross, Harvard University, Chair Klaus Baltzer, University of Munich Paul D. Hanson, Harvard University S. Dean McBride Jr., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia Peter Machinist, Harvard University Susan Niditch, Amherst College Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., emeritus 
NEW TESTAMENT Helmut Koester, Harvard University, Chair Harold W. Attridge, Yale University Adela Yarbro Collins, University of Chicago Eldon Jay Epp, Case Western Reserve University James M. Robinson, Claremont Graduate University

Matthew 8-20: A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (Hermeneia)

Crouch, James E.

The birth narrative, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, the beginnings of his Galilean ministry, and the Sermon on the Mount are all brilliantly illumined by Ulrich Luz's expert textual and historical-critical analysis and theological commentary. Luz brings special attention to the subsequent history of Christian appropriation of Matthew in homiletical and artistic interpretation, and addresses the terrible legacy of Christian anti-Judaism. This volume completes Luz's three-volume commentary on the Gospel of Matthew in the Hermeneia series. A translation of the earlier German edition of Matthew 1-7 appeared in Fortress Press's Continental Commentary series. The text has been thoroughly revised and updated.

Matthew 1-7 (Hermeneia)

Matthew 1-7 A Continental Commentary (Continental Commentaries) [Jan 01, 1992...

Matthew 1 - 7: Continental Commentaries

Linss, Wilhelm C.

Translated by Rosemary Selle The work of one of the world's foremost New Testament scholars, Ulrich Luz, this book gathers eighteen penetrating studies of Matthew's Gospel, available here in English for the first time. Luz's groundbreaking work ranges widely over the critical issues of Matthean studies, including the narrative structure and sources of the Gospel and its presentation of such themes as christology, discipleship, miracles, and Israel. Several chapters also outline and demonstrate the hermeneutical methods underlying Luz's acclaimed commentary on Matthew, for which this book can serve as a companion. Luz is particularly conscious of the Gospel's reception history, a history of interpretation connecting us with the past that determines so many of our questions, categories, and values. Studies in Matthew thus constitutes a noteworthy contribution to biblical hermeneutics as well as to exegesis.

Studies in Matthew

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew (New Testament Theology)

The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew (New Testament Theology)

Matthew in History: Interpretation, Influence, and Effects

Encountering Jesus & Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings

Encountering Jesus & Buddha: Their Lives and Teachings

Matthew 21-28 (Hermeneia)

Matthew 8-20: A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (Hermeneia)

Matthew 1-7 (Hermeneia)

Matthew 1 - 7: Continental Commentaries

Studies in Matthew