John famously begins his Gospel with a piece of theology: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Matthew starts with a genealogy. John celebrates Advent with a hymn, Matthew with a list. For John, Jesus is the Word of creation in human flesh. For Matthew, he is a name. Continue Reading »
John Chrysostom considered Matthew 25 to be the central biblical text on almsgiving. Continue Reading »
In the Great Commission, Jesus tells the disciples that they will repeat Israel’s history, and His own, among the nations. Continue Reading »
Carol Wilson’s For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Foodis a well-researched and illuminating piece of social-scientific scholarship on the New Testament.Picking up on recent work that places Matthew’s gospel in a Greco-Roman imperial context (e.g., Warren Carter), Wilson focuses . . . . Continue Reading »
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