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Article: Matthew's Bible: The Old Testament Text of the Evangelist
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
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- June 1, 2006
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Matthew's Bible: The Old Testament Text of the Evangelist. By Maarten J. J. Menken. BETL 173. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2004, xii + 336 pp., euro60.00 paper.
The pleasant green-colored slipcase of this volume should contain a noticeably bright yellow warning label: "Do not read while operating heavy machinery." This warning of reading density is not because the book is poorly written, irrelevant, or confusing-it is none of these things. In fact, there is an uncommonly clear thesis and direction throughout, and the writing style is clear. However, the nature of the thesis being propounded requires a very detailed form of argumentation, one that oscillates between texts in the Hebrew ...