The Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s Gospel (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Charles Nathan Ridlehoover examines the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew’s Gospel, focusing on the prayer’s centrality and showing how this centrality affects our reading of the Sermon on the Mount and subsequently, the prayer itself. Ridlehoover argues that the Lord’s Prayer is structurally, lexically, and thematically central to the Sermon on the Mount, and the means through which disciples of Jesus are empowered to live out the kingdom righteousness it defines. In turn, the Sermon on the Mount clarifies what the answer to the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer might look like in the life of the disciple of Jesus.
Whilst the centrality of the Lord’s Prayer has been noted by previous commentators, this centrality and its intended purpose has not hitherto been defined or examined in great depth. Ridlehoover fills this gap with a closely argued and in-depth study, ranging from methodology and the structure of the prayer itself to examining the Father, will, forgiveness and evil petitions, and the relevance of word and deed for hearers and doers. Ridlehoover's examination of the relationship between the Sermon and Prayer advances studies in compositional criticism and intratextuality.
- Explores how the Lord’s Prayer gives clues as to how to fulfill the Sermon’s ethic
- Presents a fresh understanding of the Lord’s Prayer
- Surveys recent scholarship on the Lord’s Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount
- Introduction and Survey of Scholarship
- Methodology and Plan of Book
- The Structure of the Sermon on the Mount and the Lord’s Prayer: Survey of Structures and a Proposal
- The Matthean Petitions: An Examination of the Father, Will, and Evil Petitions
- Matthew’s “Slightly” Different Petitions: An Examination of the Kingdom, Bread, and Forgiveness Petitions
- The Remaining Petitions: An Examination of the Name and Temptation Petitions
- Conclusion: The Sermon’s Prayer, Word and Deed/Hearers and Doers, and Points for Further Research
- Title: The Lord's Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's Gospel
- Author: Charles Nathan Ridlehoover
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9780567702081, 0567702081, 0567692353, 9780567692351
- Resource ID: LLS:LRDSPRYRMTTGSPL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-15T21:11:43Z
Charles Nathan Ridlehoover (Ph.D. University of Bristol, Trinity College) is gainfully employed at Juniper Networks. Moonlighting as a scholar, he specializes in the Lord’s Prayer and Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s Gospel. He is an avid fan of reading and movies.