By Glenna Jackson

Matthew's gospel starts and ends with the Jewish-Gentile debate, and on the middle of either the problem and the gospel is the tale of the Canaanite girl. it's a tale that finds rigidity among Jews and proselytes in Matthew's neighborhood and responds to the query, 'What needs to one do to be a member of the community'? This learn specializes in the stereotype of the girl as a Canaanite in addition to Matthew's resources and the shape of the tale. the realization is that the tale displays a reinforcement of Jewish legislations that enables gentiles to realize club within the Matthean neighborhood, hence carrying on with the Jewish culture that permits gentiles into the faith.

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For an explanation of this addition, see Chapter 3. 23. David C. Sim lists those scholars in 'The Gospel of Matthew and the Gentiles', JSNT51 (1995), pp. 19-48 (19-20), with special mention of Kenneth Willis Clark, 'The Gentile Bias in Matthew', JBL 66 (1947), pp. 165-72. See also Davies and Allison, Matthew, I, pp. 10-11. 24. -J. Levine, 'Anti-Judaism and the Gospel of Matthew'; Senior, 'Between Two Worlds'. 25. While Sim ('Gospel of Matthew and the Gentiles', p. 45) does not expound on 1. Tyre and Sidon: A Paradigmatic Setting 35 3.

19a); 'Assemble the people—men, women, and children, as well as the aliens residing in your towns—so that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God and to observe diligently all the words of this law' (Deut. shall be to you as citizens of Israel' (Ezek. 21-23). The exception is found in 2 Chron. 16-17 (LXX) where Solomon makes laborers, stonecutters and overseers out of the aliens. 48. So David E. Garland, The Intention of Matthew 23 (SNT, 52; Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1979), p. 129. 49. -J. Levine (Social and Ethnic Dimensions, p.

32 'Have Mercy on Me' This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: 'Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased, I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not wrangle or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; he will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick, till he brings justice to victory; and in his name will the Gentiles hope'. 17-21; cf. Isa. 1-4) In fact, while the term e'0vos is used ten more times in Matthew's Gospel, nine in a negative sense, the final time is a positive reference and found in the so-called Great Commission: Go therefore and make disciples of all the Nations, baptizing them in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

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