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176 books match the query 'New Testament' and 8 start with m

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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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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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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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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 Christian-Jewish Community

Anthony J. Saldarini

University of Chicago Press, 1994

The most Jewish of gospels in its contents and yet the most anti-Jewish in its polemics, the Gospel of Matthew has been said to mark the emergence of Christianity from Judaism. Anthony J. Saldarini overturns this interpretation by showing us how Matthew, far from proclaiming the replacement of Israel by the Christian church, wrote from within Jewish tradition to a distinctly Jewish audience.

Recent research reveals that among both Jews and Christians of the first century many groups believed in Jesus while remaining close to Judaism. Saldarini argues that the author of the Gospel of Matthew belonged to such a group, supporting his claim with an informed reading of Matthew's text and historical context. Matthew emerges as a Jewish teacher competing for the commitment of his people after the catastrophic loss of the Temple in 70 C.E., his polemics aimed not at all Jews but at those who oppose him. Saldarini shows that Matthew's teaching about Jesus fits into first-century Jewish thought, with its tradition of God-sent leaders and heavenly mediators.

In Saldarini's account, Matthew's Christian-Jewish community is a Jewish group, albeit one that deviated from the larger Jewish community. Contributing to both New Testament and Judaic studies, this book advances our understanding of how religious groups are formed.
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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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Metaphor, Morality, and the Spirit in Romans 8

1-17

William E. W. Robinson

SBL Press, 2016

Engage compelling arguments that challenge prominent positions in Pauline studies

In this innovative book, William E. W. Robinson takes the reader on a journey through Romans 8:1–17 using Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Integration Theory. Robinson delineates the underlying cognitive metaphors, their structure, their function, what they mean, and how Paul’s audiences then and now are able to comprehend their meaning. He examines each metaphor in the light of relevant aspects of the Greco-Roman world and Paul’s Jewish background. Robinson contends that Paul portrays the Spirit as the principal agent in the religious-ethical life of believers. At the same time, his analysis demonstrates that the conceptual metaphors in Romans 8:1–17 convey the integral role of believers in ethical conduct. In the process, he addresses thorny theological issues such as whether Spirit and flesh signal an internal battle within believers or two conflicting ways of life. Finally, Robinson shows how this study is relevant to related Pauline passages and challenges scholars to incorporate these methods into their own investigation of biblical texts.

Features:

  • Sustained argument that sheds new light on how Paul communicates with his audiences
  • Substantial contribution to current debates about central theological concepts
  • Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Integration Theory applied to the metaphors in Romans 8:1-17
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Miracle Discourse in the New Testament

Duane F. Watson

SBL Press, 2012

This volume explores the rhetorical role that miracle discourse plays in the argumentation of the New Testament and early Christianity. The investigation includes both the rhetoric within miracle discourse and the rhetorical role of miracle discourse as it was incorporated into the larger works in which it is now a part. The volume also examines the social, cultural, religious, political, and ideological associations that miracle discourse had in the first-century Mediterranean world, bringing these insights to bear on the broader questions of early Christian origins. The contributors are L. Gregory Bloomquist, Wendy Cotter, David A. deSilva, Davina C. Lopez, Gail O'Day, Todd Penner, Vernon K. Robbins, and Duane F. Watson.
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