The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-Based Commentary

The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-Based Commentary

Herbert W. Basser, Marsha B. Cohen

Language: English

Pages: 817

ISBN: B01K14Z6G2

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


In The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions, Herbert W. Basser, with the editorial help of Marsha Cohen, utilizes his encyclopaedic knowledge of Judaism to navigate Matthew’s Gospel. This close, original reading explicates Matthew’s use of Jewish concepts and legal traditions that have not been fully understood in the past. Basser highlights Gospel sources that are congruent with a wide swath of extant Jewish writings from various provenances. Matthew affirms Jesus’ end-of-days—the coming of the Kingdom—salvation message: initially meant for Jews, it is the Gentiles who embraced his message and teachings that encouraged their faith and simple trust. Matthew’s literary art manages to preserve the Jewish details in his sources while disclosing an anti-Jewish and pro-Gentile bias.

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Talmudic-style analysis that we find in the legal debates in the Gospels. 13  Harry Austryn Wolfson, Crescas’ Critique of Aristotle (1929), 24–27. General Introduction 11  The harmonization of apparent contradictions and the interlinking of apparent irrelevancies are the characteristic features of the Talmudic method of text study. And any attempt to answer these questions calls for ingenuity and skill, the power of analysis and association, and the ability to set up hypotheses—and all

fulfill the qetz (veḥishav et haqetz) in the generation that returned to the Land after four hundred years of servitude had ended. The Haggadah understands the oppression leading to Israel’s dramatic redemption to have begun with events leading to Israel’s initial sojourn in Egypt, in conformity with the Word of Genesis 15:13 (dibur). Israel’s oppression and redemption follows a divine script, history unfolding according to the preordained pattern of qetz determination. In no generation have the

especially the third chapter, “Archeology and the Search for ‘Non-Rabbinic Judaism’ ” (33–46). I thank Professor Fine for making these materials available to me. 15 Hermann Strack and Paul Billerbeck, Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch (1922). Besides reporting a great deal of irrelevant material, some of their comments are misleading. Their comments, pp. 533, 538 and p. 544, reference b. B. Bat. 10b in their commentary to vol. IV, Luke 10:25–37 (parable of the Good

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son of God and instead tests his loyalty to God, and this test Jesus passes. He will not worship Satan. In the other cases, the reader knows Jesus could do them but he will not negotiate with Satan—to give in to the Devil for one thing, even if reasonable is to open the door for other things. But this final test does not prove that Jesus is worthy to bear the title “Son of God,” at least in so far as this title means that he shares in God’s glory. It does prove beyond doubt that he is

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