The Gospel of Matthew in its Roman Imperial context
The
Gospel of Matthew in its Roman Imperial Context examines how Matthew's
gospel reflects the situation in which the community found itself after
the fall of Jerusalem and the subsequent humiliation of Jews across the
Roman Empire. It considers the extent to which Matthew was seeking to
oppose Rome's claims to authority and sovereignty over the whole world,
to set up alternative systems of power and society, and to forge new
senses of identity. It asks how Matthew's approach to such problems
compared with that of Jews who were not followers of Jesus Christ and
with that of others, Jews and Gentiles, who were followers.
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