Matthew within Sectarian Judaism (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library | AYBRL)

by John Kampen

Publisher:

Yale University Press

, 2019

Overview

A renowned scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls argues for reading the Gospel of Matthew as the product of a Jewish sect. In this masterful study of what has long been considered the “most Jewish” gospel, John Kampen deftly argues that the gospel of Matthew advocates for a distinctive Jewish sectarianism, rooted in the Jesus movement. He maintains that the writer of Matthew produced the work within an early Jewish sect, and its narrative contains a biography of Jesus which can be used as a model for the development of a sectarian Judaism in Lower Syria, perhaps Galilee, toward the conclusion of the first century CE. Rather than viewing the gospel of Matthew as a Jewish-Christian hybrid, Kampen considers it a Jewish composition that originated among the later followers of Jesus a generation or so after the disciples. This method of viewing the work allows readers to understand what it might have meant for members of a Jesus movement to promote their understanding of Jewish history and law that would sustain Jewish life at the end of the first century.

Product Details

• Title: Matthew within Sectarian Judaism
• Author: John Kampen
• Series: Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2019
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 320
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Matthew › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Judaism › Relations--Christianity; Christianity and other religions › Judaism
• ISBNs: 9780300171563, 0300171560
• Resource ID: LLS:MTTHWSCTRNJDSM
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:40:19Z

About John Kampen

Rev. Dr. Kampen is an eminent scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, specializing in the Synoptic Gospels, with emphasis on Matthew, as well as Jewish history and literature of the Greco-Roman era. He is published widely on subjects as diverse as the Gospel of Matthew, Jewish history, anti-Semitism and African-American use of the Bible.