{"id":694,"date":"2006-05-04T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2006\/05\/commentary-on-matthew-is-now-out.html"},"modified":"2006-05-04T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T21:39:00","slug":"commentary-on-matthew-is-now-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2006\/05\/commentary-on-matthew-is-now-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Commentary on Matthew is Now Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to give you an FYI, my new Matthew commentary is now out. In it I have tried to present a consistent reading of this Gospel in light of Jewish wisdom literature, with some interesting results for Matthean Christology and ethics. If Jesus indeed presented himself as God&#8217;s Wisdom come in the flesh then we can indeed speak of  a &#8216;Christology of and from Jesus&#8217; himself, even in the Synoptics.<\/p>\n<p>The commentaries in this series all come complete with a DVD with all kinds of extra materials and info, and with numerous art images, pictures and charts. <\/p>\n<p>I will be interested to see what you think.  Hope you like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to give you an FYI, my new Matthew commentary is now out. In it I have tried to present a consistent reading of this Gospel in light of Jewish wisdom literature, with some interesting results for Matthean Christology and ethics. 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