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This, and the second volume on Matthew 14-28, is an excellent commentary; detailed, critical, balanced, and comprehensive. In my opinion it is the best commentary at present of Matthew's Gospel, and stands at the head of many other good commentary. I use it as required reading for a graduate course I teach in the Synoptic Gospels.
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The author expounds the text from a generally conservative perspective. He does often (and at significant points) depart from traditional evangelical interpretations, but he remains within the broad evangelical tradition. The work is strong on considering structure, but he can sometimes get bogged down in source-critical issues. He argues for Markan priority and sensus plenior fulfillment of Old Testament quotations. It generally considers all the significant issues in interpretation of the text and provides valuable insight, though some more conservative readers may be unsatisfied with some of his conclusions. Sometimes his discussion of interpretive problems is disappointing brief.
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I bought this and its companion volume to research "fulfillment theology," especially what Matthew meant by saying Jesus has come to "fulfil" the Law and the Prophets. (5:17) I've written a couple books on the subject (Jesus and the Religions of Man; How Jesus fulfills the Chinese Culture) and am now doing a dissertation exploring it in more depth; and this is the commentary I've found most useful so far. (Allison & Davies are also helpful, as another reviewer said; their analysis of the Sermon on the Mount is very interesting; but I found them unreasonably skeptical a lot of the time.)
What I like about this commentary is its clarity and general good sense. Coming from a comparative or history of religions background, rather than New Testament studies, I'm also using these two volumes to teach myself NT Greek, which works pretty well. (Probably more than 70% of new vocabulary is explained, so I only need to look up 20-30%.) Fulfillment is one of Matthew's most pervasive themes, and it's been an exciting adventure to trace it systematically through the Gospel, and see how Matthew applies it implicitly to Gentile cultures at times, with the help of Hagner and other commentators.
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Since the ministry of Jesus begins only after his baptism by John (chap. 3) and the temptation (4:1-11), the opening two chapters of Matthew are in a sense the preparation for the main narrative. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opening genitive absolute, absolute discipleship, present pericope, verbatim agreement, few other witnesses, discipleship sayings, fulfillment quotations, preceding pericope, translation for clarity, fulfillment formula, short pericope, dawning kingdom, leavened loaves, formula quotations, next pericope, historical present tense, eschatological judgment, eschatological blessing, healing narrative, fifth petition, divine passive, messianic fulfillment, fourth petition, this pericope, parable discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Lord's Prayer, John the Baptist, New Testament, Matthew's Gospel, New York, Grand Rapids, Cambridge University, Sea of Galilee, Katholisches Bibelwerk, Spirit of God, Gospel of Matthew, Fourth Gospel, Justin Martyr, Dead Sea, Neuen Testament, Again Jesus, Bibliography Allison, Die Antithesen, Gospel of Thomas, Jewish Christians, Matthew's Jewish-Christian, Aramaic Approach, Ein Beitrag, Explanation Jesus New!
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Since the ministry of Jesus begins only after his baptism by John (chap. 3) and the temptation (4:1-11), the opening two chapters of Matthew are in a sense the preparation for the main narrative. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opening genitive absolute, absolute discipleship, present pericope, verbatim agreement, few other witnesses, discipleship sayings, fulfillment quotations, preceding pericope, translation for clarity, fulfillment formula, short pericope, dawning kingdom, leavened loaves, formula quotations, next pericope, historical present tense, eschatological judgment, eschatological blessing, healing narrative, fifth petition, divine passive, messianic fulfillment, fourth petition, this pericope, parable discourse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Lord's Prayer, John the Baptist, New Testament, Matthew's Gospel, New York, Grand Rapids, Cambridge University, Sea of Galilee, Katholisches Bibelwerk, Spirit of God, Gospel of Matthew, Fourth Gospel, Justin Martyr, Dead Sea, Neuen Testament, Again Jesus, Bibliography Allison, Die Antithesen, Gospel of Thomas, Jewish Christians, Matthew's Jewish-Christian, Aramaic Approach, Ein Beitrag, Explanation Jesus New!
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- The Sermon on the Mount by W. D. Davies on 5 pages
- The Sermon on the Mount: Inspiring the Moral Imagination (Companions to the New Testament) by Dale C. Allison on 4 pages
- New Testament Theology: The Proclamation of Jesus by Joachim Jeremias on 4 pages
- Setting of Sermon on Mount by Davies in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 82
- Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew by Gunther Bornkamm in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
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