Matthew

Videos

• Richard Bauckham: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
• Don Hagner: Matthew’s Gospel part One
• Don Hagner: Matthew’s Gospel part Two
• Don Hagner: Matthew’s Gospel part Three
• N T Wright: How does Matthew see Jesus’ death?

Introductions and General

• Anderson, Janice Capel, Matthew Website. A collection of material concerning Matthew.
• Cannon, William R, The Gospel of Matthew, (1982). Full text online at Religion Online.
• Constable, Thomas R, Matthew, Expository Notes, Dallas Theological Seminary (2010).
• Cardew, Maxim, Introduction to Matthew’s Gospel. Written for the NT Gateway.
• Carter, Warren, “Understanding Matthew’s Gospel”. In. Matthew: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. (2nd ed). (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004). pp 1-9.
• Hare, Douglas R. A., “Current Trends in Matthean Scholarship”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 405-410.
• Hagner, Donald A.“Writing a Commentary on Matthew: Self-Conscious Ruminations of an Evangelical,”, Semeia 72: Taking It Personally, (1995).
• Loader, William, “The Gospel of Matthew: An Introduction for Preachers.” [no date]
• Sim, David C, “The Gospel of Matthew, John the Elder and the Papias Tradition: A Response to R. H. Gundry”. Hervormde Teologiese Studies 63.1 (2007): 283-299.
• Wallace, Daniel - Matthew: Introduction, Argument, and Outline
• Wansborough, Henry has written a course-booklet for Matthew which is well worth reading. The pdf is available here.
• Witherington, Ben, “Introduction”. In: Matthew. (Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2006). pp 1-37.

The Synoptic Gospels

• Kloppenborg, John S., “On Dispensing with Q Goodacre on the Relation of Luke to Matthew”. New Testament Studies 49.2 (2003): 210-236.
• Marshal, John W, The Five Gospels Parallels. He writes: “This HTML presentation of the Five Gospels is designed to be a teaching tool for introductory level classes in New Testament and Christian Origins”. Well worth a play.
• Peterson, Jeffrey, “Order in the Double Tradition and the Existence of Q”. In: Mark Goodacre & Nicholas Perrin (eds). Questioning Q. (London: SPCK, 2002).
• Smith, Ben, The Synoptic Project. Another good site allowing you to explore synoptic issues.

Use of the Old Testament

• Allison, Dale C, “‘Elijah must come first’”, Journal of Biblical Literature 103.2 (June 1984): 256-258.
• Blomberg, Craig L, “Interpreting Old Testament Prophetic Literature in Matthew: Double Fulfilment”. Trinity Journal 23.1 (2002): 17-33.
• Capes, David B, “Intertextual Echoes in the Matthean Baptismal Narrative,”Bulletin for Biblical Research 9 (1999): 37-49.
• Goldingay, John, “The Old Testament and Christian Faith: Jesus and the Old Testament in Matthew 1-5. Part 1. Themelios 8.1 (1982): 4-10.
• Goldingay, John, “The Old Testament and Christian Faith: Jesus and the Old Testament in Matthew 1-5. Part 2. Themelios 8.3 (1983): 5-12.
• Hinkle, Mary, “Learning What Righteousness Means: Hosea 6:6 and the Ethic of Mercy in Matthew’s Gospel”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 355-363.??
• Turner, David L, “Matthew 23 as Prophetic Critique”. Journal of Biblical Studies 4.1 (2004).
• Viljoen, Francois P, “Fulfilment in Matthew”. Verbum et Ecclesia 28.1 (2007): 301-324.
• Weren, Wim J C, “The Use of Isaiah 5,1-7 in the Parable of the Tenants (Mark 12,1-12; Matthew 21,33-46)”, Biblica 79 (1998): 1-26.

Structure

• Brooks, James A, “The unity and structure of the Sermon on the Mount.” Criswell Theological Review 6.1 (1992) 15-28.
• Weren, Wm J C, “The Macrostructure of Matthew’s Gospel: A New Proposal”. Biblica 87.2 (2006): 171-200.

Interpretation

• Fowler, Robert M,“Using Literary Criticism on the Gospels”, Christian Century May 26 (1982).
• Frye, Roland Mushat, “Literary Criticism and Gospel Criticism”, Theology Today 36 (1979), pp. 207-19.
• Grams, Rollin G, “Biblical Foundations for Missions: Narrative Dynamics in Matthew’s Mission Theology” (OCM Lecture, 13th May 2003).
• Gundry, Robert H, “Not the Righteous but Sinners: MN.M. Bakhtin’s Theory of Aesthetics and the Problem of Reader-Charter Interaction in Matthew’s Gospel,”, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly (2004).
• Hanson, K C, “Transformed on the Mountain: Ritual Analysis and the Gospel of Matthew,”, Semeia 67: Transformations, Passages and Processes: Ritual Approaches to Biblical Texts, (1994).
• Olmstead, Wesley G, “Introduction: Of Authors, Readers, and Approaches to the Parables”. In: Matthew’s Trilogy of Parables: The Nation, the Nations, and the Reader in Matthew 21.28-22.14. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). pp 3-21.
• Robbins, Vernon K, “Examples of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation in Matthew,”, at The Encyclopedia of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation.
• Van Aarde, Andries,“Jesus’ Mission to All of Israel Emplotted in Matthew’s Story”. Neotestamentica 41.2 (2007): 416-436.

Christology

• Carson, D A, “Christological Ambiguities in the Gospel of Matthew”. In: Harold Hamlyn Rowdon (ed). Christ the Lord: Studies in Christology Presented to Donald Guthrie. (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1982). pp 97-114.
• Heil, John, “The Blood of Jesus in Matthew: A Narrative-Critical Perspective”, Perspectives in Religious Studies 18 (1991): 117-24.
• Senior, Donald, “The Gospel of Matthew and the Passion of Jesus: Theological and Pastoral Perspectives”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 372-379.
• Tait, Michael, “The fly in the ointment: what does myrrh foreshow in Matthew 2:11” Scripture Bulletin 39 (2009) 10-21.
• Waetjen, Herman C, “The Origin of Jesus Christ: Matthew 1:1-25”, The Christian Century (May 20-27 1998): 524-53, reproduced on Religion-Online.
• Witherington, Ben, “The Origins of Jesus: Matthew 1:1-25. In. Matthew. (Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2006). pp 39-54.

Community and Discipleship

• Boyce, James L, “Transformed for Disciple Community: Matthew in Pentecost”. Word & World 13.3 (1993): 308-317.
• D’Angelo, Mary Rose, “Images of Jesus and the Christian Vocation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew,”. Spirituality Today, (1984).
• Hagner, Donald A, “Law, Righteousness and Discipleship in Matthew”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 364-371.
• Krentz, Edgar, “Identity Formation: Matthew as Resource and Guide”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 411-417.
• Wills, Lawrence M, “Instruction in Matthew” (Paper for the SBL Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Group, 2002 Annual Meeting).

The New Israel/Moses

• Baxter, Wayne S, “Mosaic Imagery in the Gospel of Matthew”. Trinity Journal 20.1 (1999): 69-83.
• Wansbrough, Henry, “The New Israel: The Community of Matthew and the Community of Qumran.” (1999)

The Kingdom

• Allen, D. Matthew, The Kingdom in Matthew, at the Biblical Studies Foundation.

Rome

• Dobrovolny, Mary Kay, “Who Controls the Resources Economics and Justice in Matt 20:1-15 (Paper at 2004 SBL Meeting).
• Mowery, Robert L, “Son of God in Roman Imperial Titles and Matthew”. Biblica 83.1 (2002): 100-110.

Judaism/Jewish Culture

• Bernabe, Carmen, “Of Eunuchs and Predators: Matthew 19:1-12 in a Cultural Context: Critical Essay”. Biblical Theology Bulletin 33.4 (2003): 128-134.
• Black, Matthew, “Previous Work on the Aramaic of the Gospels and Acts”. In. An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts. (3rd ed). (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1998). pp 1-15.
• Duling, Dennis C, “Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, and the Matthean Ethnos”. Biblical Theology Bulletin 25.4 (2005): 125-143.
• Evans, Craig A., “Introduction: An Aramaic Approach Thirty Years Later”. In: Matthew Black (ed). An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts. (3rd ed). (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1998). pp v-xxv.
• Evans, Craig A., “Jewish Versions of the Gospel of Matthew: Observations on Three Recent Publications”. Mishkan 38 (2003): 70-79.
• Hanson, K C, “‘How Honorable! How Shameful!’ a Cultural Analysis of Matthew’s Makarisms and Reproaches”. Semeia 68. (1994): 81-111.
• Lee, Dorothy A, “Matthew’s Gospel and Judaism,” (Undated. From Jewish Christian Relations).
• Neyrey, Jerome H, “Honoring the dishonored: the cultural edge of Jesus’ Beatitudes.” (not dated).
• Smillie, Gene R, “‘Even the Dogs’: Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew”. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 45.1 (2002): 73-97.
• Viljoen, Francois P, “Matthew, the Church and Anti-Semitism”. Verbum et Ecclesia 28.2 (2007): 698-718.
• Willits, Joel, “Matthew’s Messianic Shepherd-King: In Search of ‘the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel’”. Hervormde Teologiese Studies 63.1 (2007): 365-382.

Ministry and Mission

• Arias, Mortimer, “Rethinking the Great Commission”. Theology Today 47.4 (1991): 410-418.
• Balabanski, Victoria, “Mission in Matthew against the Horizon of Matthew 24 (Paper at SBL Annual Meeting 2005).
• Hultgren, Arland J, “Mission and Ministry in Matthew”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 341-347.
• Krentz, Edgar, “‘Make Disciples’: Matthew on Evangelism”. Currents in Theology and Mission 33.1 (2006): 23-41.
• Lee, Kukzin & Viljoen, Francois P, “The target group of the ultimate commission (Matthew 28:19).” Hervormde Teologiese Studies 61.1 (2010).
• Ott, Bernhard, “Matthew 28:16-20 and the Holistic Mission Debate: An Anabaptist Contribution”. Mission Focus Annual Review 14.(2006): 149-165.
• Patte, Daniel, “Reading Matthew 28:16-20 with Others: How It Deconstructs Our Western Concept of Mission”. Hervormde Teologiese Studies 62.2 (2006): 521-557.
• Schnabel, Eckhard J, “The First Gospel and Matthew’s Mission-Narrative: Theological and Historical Perspectives” (Paper at SBL Meeting, 2005).
• Sim, David C, “Matthew, Paul and the Origin and Nature of the Gentile Mission: The Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20 as an Anti-Pauline Tradition”. Hervormde Teologiese Studies 64.1 (2008): 377-392.
• Yokota, Paul, “Matthew’s Mission Paradigm in Critical Dialogue with David J. Bosch”. Mission Focus Annual Review 11 Supplement.(2003): 106-116.

Sermon on the Mount

• Gibson, Jeffrey B, “Matthew 6:9-13//Luke 11:2-4: An Eschatological Prayer” Biblical Theology Bulletin 31.Fall 2001 (2001).
• Hultgren, Arland J, “Forgive Us, as We Forgive (Matthew 6:12)”. Word & World 16.3 (1996): 284-290.
• Shore, Mary Hinkle, “The Lord’s prayer: empowerment for living the Sermon on the Mount.” Word & World 22, no. 1 (2002): 9-17.
• Sibinga, J Smit, “Exploring the Composition of Matth. 5-7: The Sermon on the Mount and Some of Its “Structures””. Filología Neotestamentaria 7.(1994): 175-195.
• Smith, Robert H, “‘Blessed Are the Poor in (Holy) Spirit’ (Matthew 5:3)”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 389-396.
• Smith, Robert H, “The End in Matthew (5:48 and 28:20): How to Preach It and How Not To”. Word & World 19.3 (1999): 303-313.
• Stassen, Glen H, “The Fourteen Triads of the Sermon on the Mount”, on-line article, Glen Stassen’s homepage (no date).
• Viljoen, Francois P, “Jesus’ Teaching on the Torah in the Sermon on the Mount”. Neotestamentica 40.1 (2006): 135-155.

Interpreting Parables

• Albers, Robert H, “Perspectives on the Parables”. Word & World 4.4 (1984): 437-454.
• Bailey, Mark L, “Guidelines for Interpreting Jesus’ Parables”. Bibliotheca Sacra 155 (1998): 29-38.
• Blomberg, Craig L“The Miracles as Parables”. In: David Wenham & Craig Blomberg (eds). The Miracles of Jesus. (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1986). pp 327-359.
• Chenoweth, Ben, “Identifying the Talents: Contextual Clues for the Interpretation of the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30).” Tyndale Bulletin 56(1) (2005): 61-72.
• Gibbs, Jeffrey A, “Parables of Atonement and Assurance: Matthew 13:44-46?. Concordia Theological Quarterly 51.1 (1987): 19-43.
• Gibbs, Jeffrey A, “Parables of Atonement and Assurance: Matthew 13:44-46. Concordia Theological Quarterly 51.1 (1987): 19-43.
• Gendy, Atef Mehanny, The Parables of Matthew or the Parables of Jesus? PhD diss. University of Aberdeen, 2001.
• Gowler, David B, “Parables and their Social Contexts”, Chapter 6 in What Are They Saying About the Parables? (New York: Paulist, 2000), reproduced on Gowler’s Homepage
• Just, Felix, “Parables and Parabolic Images in the Gospels “. (not dated).
• Kistemaker, Simon J, “Jesus as Story Teller: Literary Perspectives on Parables”. Master’s Seminary Journal 16.1 (2005): 49-55.
• McFague, Sally, Speaking in Parables: A Study in Metaphor and Theology. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975).
• Olmstead, Wesley G, “Introduction: Of Authors, Readers, and Approaches to the Parables”. In: Matthew’s Trilogy of Parables: The Nation, the Nations, and the Reader in Matthew 21.28-22.14. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). pp 3-21.
• Olmstead, Wesley G, Matthew’s Trilogy of Parables (21.28-22.14): The Nation, the Nations and the Reader. PhD diss. University of London, 1999.
• Reid, Barbara E, “Matthew’s Non-Violent Jesus and Violent Parables”. In: Robert B. Kruschwitz (ed). Parables. (Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics.). (Waco: Baylor University, 2006). pp 27-36.
• Reinstorf, Dieter Heinrich, “The Challenge of Jesus’ Parables: A Scholarly Handbook for Ministers and Preachers”. Hervormde Teologiese Studies 62.1 (2006): 139-154.
• Schmithals, Walter, “The Parabolic Teachings in the Synoptic Gospels”. Journal of Higher Criticism 4.2 (1997): 3-32.
• Story, J Lyle, “All is now ready: an exegesis of ‘the great banquet’ (Luke 14:15–24) and ‘the marriage feast’ (Matthew 22:1-14).” American Theological Inquiry 2.2 (2009) 67-80.
• Tashjian, Jirair S, “Whatever Happened to Friendship and Hospitality in the Parables of Jesus?” (Paper at 41st Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society). (2007).
• Tejares, Silvina E, “The Parable of the Talents: Parable of the Risk Taker (Matthew 25, 14-30): Christian Model in Ethic of Work”. (not dated.).
• Tejares, Silvina E, “The Parable of the Talents: Parable of the Risk Taker (Matthew 25, 14-30): Christian Model in Ethic of Work”. (not dated).
• Waetjen, Herman C, “The Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13): The Integrity of Identity and Activity”. In: Marvin L. Chaney & Holly E. Hearon (eds). Distant Voices Drawing Near: Essays in Honor of Antoinette Clark Wire. (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2004). pp 117-129.
• Waetjen, Herman C, “Intimations of the Year of Jubilee in the Parables of the Wicked Tenants and the Workers in the Vineyard”. Journal of Religion and Theology in Namibia 1. (1999): 1-14.
• Weren, Wim J C, “The Use of Isaiah 5,1-7 in the Parable of the Tenants (Mark 12,1-12; Matthew 21,33-46)”. Biblica 79.1 (1998): 1-26.
• Wink, Walter, “Letting Parables Live”. Christian Century (November 5, 1980): 1062-1064.
• Young, Brad, “Introduction: Gospel and Rabbinic Parables”. In: The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation. (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1998). pp 3-38

Women in Matthew

• Guillemin, Elaine, Female Imagery in Matthew’s Gospel: A Feminist Reader’s Response. PhD diss. University of St. Michael’s College, (1999).
• Kopas, Jane, “Jesus and Women in Matthew”. Theology Today 47.1 (1990): 13-21.
• ?Love, Stuart L, “Jesus, Healer of the Canaanite Woman’s Daughter in Matthew’s Gospel: A Social-Scientific Inquiry”. Biblical Theology Bulletin 32.1 (2002): 11-20.
• Pruiksma, Nienke, “Musa W. Dube’s Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Mission Texts in Matthew and the Evolvement of the Concept of Mission in the HIV/AIDS Reading” (Paper at Sbl Annual Meeting, 2006).?
• Robbins, Vernon K, “The woman who touched Jesus’ garment: socio-rhetorical analysis of the synoptic accounts.” New Testament Studies 33.4 (1987) 502-515.
• ?Thiemann, Ronald F, “The Unnamed Woman at Bethany”, Theology Today 44 (1987-88): 179-88.
• Wainwright, Elaine M, “Tradition Makers / Tradition Shapers: Women of the Matthean Tradition”. Word & World 18.4 (1998): 380-388.