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58 books match the query 'Jesus, the Gospels & Acts' and 5 start with m

cover of Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health: Encounters with Jesus

Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health

Encounters with Jesus

Simon Mainwaring

SBL Press, 2014

An incitement to re-assess how society relates to persons with poor mental health

Mainwaring explores the societal contexts of those who suffer poor mental health, and in particular the relational dynamics of how identity, agency, and dialogue are negotiated in personal encounters. This work seeks to serve as an experiment, such that interested readers might better understand the dynamics of relational power that pervade encounters with persons with poor mental health.

Features:

  • Foucauldian analysis of the relational dynamics of poor mental health used to re-imagine hegemonic relational dynamics
  • Close readings of encounters between individual characters to evaluate how mutuality operates in those encounters
  • Study of mutuality as it has emerged in mental health literature, feminist theologies, and theologies of disability
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cover of Matthew 16:21–28:20: Introduction and Commentary

Matthew 16

21–28:20: Introduction and Commentary

Warren Carter

SBL Press, 2025

In volume 2 of this remarkable two-volume commentary, Warren Carter situates Matthew 16:21–28:20 within the context of Jewish traditions and Roman power after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Each passage is translated, with interpretation and commentary following. Carter reveals how the text illuminates the diverse ways a community of Jesus followers navigated imperial power. In addition to his thorough examination of the gospel in its historical and social context, Carter shines new light on instances of the Gospel of Matthew’s reception, illustrating how scholars have interpreted it from the era of the early church up to the present.
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cover of Matthew 1:1–16:20: Introduction and Commentary

Matthew 1

1–16:20: Introduction and Commentary

Warren Carter

SBL Press, 2025

In volume 1 of this remarkable two-volume commentary, Warren Carter situates Matthew 1:1–16:20 within the context of Jewish traditions and Roman power after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Each passage is translated, with interpretation and commentary following. Carter reveals how the text illuminates the diverse ways a community of Jesus followers navigated imperial power. The volume’s History of Consequences sections shine new light on instances of the Gospel of Matthew’s reception in ancient and modern media through the application of a range of methodologies, readings from different geographic locations, and social contexts.
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cover of Matthew within Judaism: Israel and the Nations in the First Gospel

Matthew within Judaism

Israel and the Nations in the First Gospel

Anders Runesson

SBL Press, 2020

In this collection of essays, leading New Testament scholars reassess the reciprocal relationship between Matthew and Second Temple Judaism. Some contributions focus on the relationship of the Matthean Jesus to torah, temple, and synagogue, while others explore theological issues of Jewish and gentile ethnicity and universalism within and behind the text.

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Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast

A Sociorhetorical Interpretation

Ruth Christa Mathieson

SBL Press, 2023

Ruth Christa Mathieson’s unique reading of Matthew’s parable of the royal wedding feast (Matt 22:1–14), which concludes with the king’s demand that one of the guests be bound and cast out into the outer darkness, focuses on the means of the underdressed guest’s expulsion. Using sociorhetorical interpretation, Mathieson draws the parable into conversation with early Jewish narratives of the angel Raphael binding hands and feet (1 Enoch; Tobit) and the protocol for expelling individuals from the community in Matt 18. She asserts that readers are invited to consider if the person who is bound and cast out is a danger to the little ones of the community of faith unless removed and restrained.

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