Tradition and authority in scribal culture

Stuckenbruck, Loren T. (2023): Tradition and authority in scribal culture. A comparison between the Yaḥadic Dead Sea Scroll texts and the Gospel of Matthew. In: Barclay, John M. G und Crabbe, Kylie (eds.) : The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians. The reception of Jesus in the first three centuries, London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney: T&T Clark. pp. 179-196

Abstract

One of the main emphases of the Gospel of Matthew is its portrayal of Jesus as one who gives instruction. In the text, while his teaching is often addressed to his disciples (Mt. 5.1), it is also directed at the disciples of John the Baptist (9.14), the crowds (cf. 7.28; 11.7; 12.46; 13.2, 34; 15.10; 22.33; 23.1) and leaders with whom he debates (12.38; 15.1; 16.1; 19.3; 22.41; cf. 16.12). Beyond the narrative itself, which looks back to the time of Jesus, scholars frequently recognize that the disciples of Jesus, whether in full or presented as a subgroup (e.g. Peter, James, John) or individual (i.e. Peter), function at least in part as a cipher for the ‘community’ within which the gospel has taken shape several generations after Jesus’s time. Thus, the function of Jesus’s teaching, so clearly on display in the text, relates to two temporal frameworks, one having to do with what Jesus said during his activity in Galilee and Judea and one having to do with what Jesus is saying within the gospel’s contemporary setting....

• Item Type: Book Section
• Faculties: Protestant Theology > Institute of New Testament Studies
• Subjects: 200 Religion > 230 Christianity and Christian theology
• ISBN: 978-0-567-70272-2 ; 978-0-567-69600-7 ; 978-0-567-69602-1
• Place of Publication: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Language: English