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The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context

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The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context - Riches, John K, and Sim, David C
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In what sense does Matthew's Gospel reflect the colonial situation in which the community found itself after the fall of Jerusalem and the subsequent humiliation of Jews across the Roman Empire? To what extent was Matthew seeking to oppose Rome's claims to authority and sovereignty over the whole world, to set up alternative systems of power and society, to forge new senses of identity? If Matthew's community felt itself to be living on the margins of society, where did it see the centre as lying? In Judaism or in Rome? And ...

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The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context 2005, T&T Clark, New York

ISBN-13: 9780567084583

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