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Hostile encounters between Jesus and Jewish leaders are found throughout the Gospel of Matthew. Yet these encounters are rarely explored holistically, nor is attention given to the reason for their prominence in the Matthean text. In By What Authority?, Dr Rebecca Ye-Atkinson examines seventeen distinct moments of conflict in the first gospel, exploring the function of each narrative in light of Matthew’s overarching literary and theological purposes.
An excellent resource for scholars, this in-depth textual analysis is also accessible and engaging for any reader interested in deepening their understanding of Matthew’s gospel and its message.

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Publié par	Langham Creative Projects
Date de parution	03 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781839730177
Langue	English

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This study provides valuable insight into the narrative function of the conflict stories in Matthew’s gospel, showing their role in the overall design or plot of this gospel. Conflict leads to the passion. The author also rightly highlights the christological function that surfaces in some of these narratives, which reveal Jesus’s identity, including its divine aspect.
Craig S. Keener, PhD
F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies,
Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, USA
In this fresh and searching exploration of the first gospel, Ye-Atkinson employs literary-critical tools to demonstrate how essential the conflict stories are to Matthew’s plot and purpose. Continually, she exposes that, through their querulous questions and strident challenges, Jesus’s opponents are struggling, not with legal and theological disputes of their day, much less a later generation’s, but with the very identity of Jesus. His opponents eventually learn, just as modern readers of Matthew should, that there is no future in opposition to Jesus, their God and King.
Richard J. Gibson, PhD
Principal, Brisbane School of Theology, Australia
In this insightful and judicious study, Rebecca Ye-Atkinson is putting literary methods to good use by asking the right, theological questions. She aptly guides the reader through Matthew’s use of the conflict stories, and she shows how they highlight Jesus’s divine authority, the Christ-centered nature of God’s people, and the pivot towards the gentile mission. All students of Matthew’s gospel will benefit greatly from this book.
Sigurd Grindheim, PhD
Professor, Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies,
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Moving beyond form-critical concerns that center on the Sitz im Leben behind the Matthean conflict stories, this study provides a fresh reading of a significant portion of the gospel through a literary-critical lens. Not only does it demonstrate the fruitfulness of a synchronic approach to the ancient text, it also unveils the narrative function of these stories at the intersection of Matthew’s ecclesiological and christological concerns. For both its methodological contributions and its exegetical yield, this study deserves to be widely read and studied.
David W. Pao, PhD
Professor of New Testament,
Chair of the New Testament Department,
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, USA
The significance of conflict stories in the narrative of Matthew’s gospel has captured scholars’ attention since J. D. Kingsbury’s ground-breaking study. How these conflict stories function in the narrative remains a field to be ploughed for a richer harvest nonetheless. While scholars take conflict stories for granted, the value of the stories have been reduced to revealing the struggle between the Matthean Christians and their Jewish opponents. Because of this preoccupation, one can speak of the eclipse of the author’s concern and the narrative’s impact on its readers. Underlying this inadequacy is the failure to read the narrative holistically. Dr Rebecca Ye-Atkinson’s effort has filled this void. The selection of seventeen conflict stories provides important data based on which a map of investigation is convincingly drafted. The strategy of narrative and rhetorical reading has provided a nexus in which conflict stories are better understood. Her treatment of the author’s interpretation of the Hebrew Scripture has highlighted the theological essence of the stories. More importantly, Dr Ye-Atkinson is found competent in demonstrating how conflict stories in the Matthean narrative impact on the reader. Readers of the Matthean gospel will be benefited by this carefully argued fine piece of work.
Poling Sun, PhD
Professor of New Testament
Taiwan Graduate School of Theology, Taipei, Taiwan
Conflict stories occupy a large portion of the Gospel of Matthew. Dr Ye-Atkinson explains clearly their literary function and cumulative effect, arguing that the conflict stories facilitate Matthew’s theological emphasis that Jesus is the Davidic Messiah who possesses the status and authority of God. Relationship to Jesus – not the law – is the foremost criteria for determining one’s kingdom inclusion, a turning point marked by the inclusion of the Gentiles. This study helpfully illuminates why Israel and the Jewish leaders ultimately decided to reject Jesus as their expected Messiah and nailed him to the cross.
This study’s organized layout and fluent expression will definitely appeal to the readers’ appetite and interest in exploring the whole writing. I believe this work will help readers to understand the amazing cumulative effects of these conflict stories. I highly recommend that anyone who has the desire to understand the purpose and message of Matthew’s conflict stories should not miss the chance to read this study.
Emily Yeh Wang, PhD
Associate Professor of New Testament,
International Chinese Biblical Seminary in Europe (ICBSIE), Barcelona, Spain

“By What Authority?”
The Literary Function and Impact of Conflict Stories in the Gospel of Matthew
Rebecca Ye-Atkinson

© 2020 Rebecca Ye-Atkinson
Published 2020 by Langham Monographs
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Contents

Cover

Acknowledgements

Abstract

List of Abbreviations

Modern Publications

Apocrypha

Old Testament Pseudoepigrapha

Early Christian Literature

Classical and Hellenistic Literature

Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Texts

Orders and Tractates in Mishnaic and Related Literature

Other Rabbinic Works

Targumic Material

Chapter 1 Introduction and Methods

1.1 Research Question and Purpose of the Investigation

1.2 Conflict Stories in Previous Studies

1.3 Methodology in the Current Study

1.4 Scope of Methodology Applied in the Thesis

1.5 Structural Plan of the Book

Chapter 2 Conflict Stories in Matthew 9 Jesus, the Supreme Authority

2.1 Analysis of Individual Pericopae: Matthew 9:1–8, 9–13, 14–17

2.2 Conflict Stories in Context of Matthew 5–9

Chapter 3 Conflict Stories in Matthew 12 This Generation Encounters the Lord of the Sabbath

3.1 Analysis of Individual Pericopea: Matthew 12:1–8, 9–14, 22–37, 38–45

3.2 Conflict Stories in Context

Chapter 4 Conflict Stories in Matthew 13, 15, 16 and 19 The Parting of the Ways

4.1 Analysis of Individual Pericopea: Matthew 13:53–58; 15:1–9; 16:1–4; 19:1–9

4.2 Conflict Stories in Context Matthew 13–20

Chapter 5 The Jerusalem Conflict Stories Whose Son Is the Christ?

5.1 Analysis of Individual Pericopea: Matthew 21:14–17, 23–27; 22:15–22, 23–33, 34–40, 41–46

5.2 Conflict Stories in the Context of Matthew 21–25

Chapter 6 Summary and Conclusions

6.1 Conclusion and Findings

6.2 Summary

Appendix 1 Jesus in Dialogue with Other Characters in the Gospel of Matthew

Bibliography

Endnotes
Acknowledgements
This book is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation under the same title (University of Edinburgh, 2014). During 2018 and 2019 I was ab