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Article: The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community

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DAVID C. SIM, The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community (Studies of the New Testament and Its World; Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1998). Pp. xvi + 347. $54.95.

The author concludes this monograph suggesting that the readers of Matthew's Gospel have suffered from 2,000 years of misinterpretation, but now that new paths have been explored, "we should be prepared to listen to Matthew's Christian Jewish voice and to take seriously his alternative Christian Jewish version of the gospel" (p. 302).

Sim examines (1) several introductory issues, (2) the date and location of the Matthean community (85-95 c.E. in Antioch on the Orontes), (3) ...

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