Preface | p. xiii |
Abbreviations | p. xv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The social setting of the Matthean community in recent studies | p. 1 |
The question of location | p. 10 |
Judaism, Christian Judaism and Gentile Christianity | p. 12 |
Judaism | p. 12 |
The major types in the Christian Movement | p. 19 |
Christian Judaism and Gentile Christianity | p. 24 |
The plan of this book | p. 27 |
The date and location of the Matthean community | p. 31 |
The date of the Gospel | p. 31 |
A date prior to 100 | p. 31 |
A date after 70 | p. 33 |
The location of the Gospel | p. 40 |
Jerusalem or Palestine | p. 40 |
Transjordan | p. 41 |
Caesarea Maritima | p. 45 |
Phoenicia | p. 48 |
Alexandria | p. 49 |
Syria (outside Antioch) | p. 51 |
Antioch on the Orontes | p. 53 |
The History of the Christian Movement in Antioch Prior to Matthew | p. 63 |
The Hellenists and Antioch | p. 64 |
The Hellenists and the Hebrews | p. 64 |
The Hellenists in Antioch | p. 71 |
The extension of the mission by Barnabas and Paul | p. 77 |
The apostolic council | p. 79 |
The events leading to the apostolic council | p. 80 |
The Pauline version of the council | p. 82 |
The Acts version of the council | p. 88 |
The dispute at Antioch | p. 92 |
James and the circumcision party | p. 92 |
The message from James | p. 94 |
Paul's departure from Antioch | p. 100 |
The fate of the Antiochene Church | p. 103 |
Conclusions | p. 106 |
The Matthean Community and Formative Judaism | p. 109 |
Preliminary questions | p. 109 |
Sects and sectarianism | p. 109 |
Formative Judaism | p. 113 |
The sectarian nature of the Matthean community | p. 115 |
Sectarian language | p. 117 |
Hostility towards the Jewish leadership | p. 118 |
The centrality of the law | p. 123 |
Further sectarian tendencies | p. 139 |
The Matthean community within Judaism | p. 142 |
The relations between the Matthean community and the Jewish world | p. 150 |
The cause of the break with formative Judaism | p. 150 |
Persecution of the Matthean community | p. 151 |
The Jewish mission and persecution | p. 157 |
Conclusions | p. 162 |
The Matthean Community and Pauline Christianity | p. 165 |
The historical background | p. 166 |
The collection | p. 166 |
The deaths of Paul and James | p. 169 |
The effects of the Jewish war | p. 171 |
The Gentile Christian literature | p. 172 |
The Christian Jewish literature | p. 177 |
The implications of the evidence | p. 186 |
The Matthean community and Pauline Christianity | p. 188 |
James and the relatives of Jesus | p. 188 |
The disciples | p. 192 |
Peter | p. 196 |
Paul and the law-free gospel | p. 199 |
The Pauline mission in Antioch | p. 211 |
Conclusions | p. 213 |
The Matthean Community and the Gentile World | p. 215 |
The Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew | p. 216 |
The Gentiles in Matthew's story | p. 216 |
Anti-Gentile statements in Matthew | p. 226 |
Gentile persecution of the Matthean community | p. 231 |
The Matthean community and the Gentile mission | p. 236 |
The Gentiles in the Matthean community | p. 247 |
Conclusions | p. 255 |
The Matthean Community and Ignatius of Antioch | p. 257 |
Ignatius of Antioch as a successor to Paul | p. 260 |
Ignatius and the Pauline Epistles | p. 260 |
The influence of Paul on Ignatius | p. 262 |
The church of Ignatius | p. 269 |
The Matthean community and Ignatius of Antioch | p. 270 |
The origin of the Gentile Christian church of Ignatius | p. 270 |
The 'Judaising' opponents of Ignatius | p. 272 |
The 'Judaisers' and the Matthean community | p. 282 |
Conclusions | p. 286 |
The Fate of the Matthean Community | p. 289 |
Conclusions | p. 299 |
Bibliography | p. 303 |
Index of biblical references/ancient sources | p. 323 |
Index of modern authors | p. 339 |
Index of subjects | p. 345 |
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