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Bibliography: The Gospel of Matthew

Overview

Carter, Warren. Matthew: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. 2nd ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

Garland, David. Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel. Rev. ed. RNTS. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 1999.

Hare, Douglas A. Matthew. IBC. Louisville: John Knox, 1993.

Hauerwas, Stanley. Matthew. BTCB. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2007.

Kingsbury, Jack Dean. Matthew as Story. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.

Luz, Ulrich. The Theology of the Gospel of Matthew. NTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Overman, J. Andrew. Church and Community in Crisis: The Gospel According to Matthew. NTC. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1996.

Powell, Mark Allan. God with Us: A Pastoral Theology of Matthew’s Gospel. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Pregeant, Russell. Matthew. CCT. St. Louis: Chalice, 2004.

Schnackenburg, Rudolf. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

Senior, Donald. Matthew. ACNT. Nashville: Abingdon, 1998.

———. Matthew. IBT. Nashville: Abingdon, 2000.

———. What Are They Saying about Matthew? Rev. ed. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1995.

Wright, Tom. Matthew for Everyone. 2 vols. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004.

Critical Commentaries

Albright, W. F., and C. S. Mann. Matthew. AB 26. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.

Bruner, Frederick Dale. Matthew: A Commentary. Rev. ed. 2 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Carter, Warren. Matthew and the Margins: A Socio-Political and Religious Reading. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000.

Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew. 3 vols. ICC 28. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1988–97.

Gibbs, Jeffrey A. Matthew 1:1–11:1. ConcC. St. Louis: Concordia, 2006.

———. Matthew 11:2–20:34. ConcC. St. Louis: Concordia, 2010. [Additional volumes planned.]

Gundry, Robert H. Matthew: A Commentary on His Literary and Theological Art. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982.

Hagner, Donald. Matthew. 2 vols. WBC 33. Dallas: Word, 1993.

Harrington, Daniel J. The Gospel of Matthew. SP. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991.

Hill, David. The Gospel of Matthew. NCenBC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972.

Keener, Craig S. A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Luz, Ulrich. Matthew. 3 vols. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1989–2007.

Meier, John P. Matthew. New Testament Message 3. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1980.

Nolland, John. The Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary on the Greek Text. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

Patte, Daniel. The Gospel According to Matthew. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.

Smith, Robert. Matthew. ACNT. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1989.

Turner, David. Matthew. BECNT. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.

Witherington, Ben, III. Matthew. SHBC. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2006.

Academic Studies

Note: works on the Sermon on the Mount follow this list.

Allison, Dale C. The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

———. Studies in Matthew: Interpretation Past and Present. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005.

Aune, David E., ed. The Gospel of Matthew in Current Study. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001. Selected articles and essays.

Bacon, Benjamin. Studies in Matthew. London: Constable, 1930. Classic interpretation of Matthew as a Christian Pentateuch that presents the teachings of Jesus, the “new Moses.”

Balch, David L., ed. Social History of the Matthean Community: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991. Collection of essays from a conference on sociohistorical study of Matthew. Studies attempt to describe the Matthean community in terms of Jewish and Hellenistic aspects, gender roles, and so forth.

Barton, Stephen. Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew. SNTSMS 80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bauer, David R. The Structure of Matthew’s Gospel: A Study in Literary Design. JSNTSup 31. Sheffield: Almond, 1988. Reviews current hypotheses on the structure of Matthew’s Gospel and analyzes this structure afresh by drawing on recognizable and definable principles of rhetorical criticism.

Bauer, David R., and Mark Allan Powell. Treasures New and Old: Contributions to Matthean Studies. SBLSymS 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Collection of essays presented over a period of ten years in the Matthew Group for the Society of Biblical Literature.

Blickenstaff, Marianne. “While the Bridegroom Is with Them”: Marriage, Family, Gender, and Violence in the Gospel of Matthew. JSNTSup 292. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Bornkamm, Günther, Gerhard Barth, and Heinz Joachim Held. Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew. NTL. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963. Collection of three studies: (1) stressing that the orientation of the church in Matthean perspective is toward the future coming of Jesus as the judge of all; (2) dealing with Matthew’s understanding of the law; (3) discussing how Matthew interprets the miracle stories of Jesus.

Bradley, Marshell C. Matthew: Poet, Historian, Dialectician. SBL 103. New York: Lang, 2007. Attempts to trace Matthew’s argument for the transformation of Jewish faith into Christian faith.

Brooks, Stephenson. Matthew’s Community: The Evidence of His Special Sayings Material. JSNTSup 16. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1987. A source-critical analysis of selected “M” saying traditions that attempts to reconstruct a possible early history of the Matthean church.

Brown, Jeannine K. The Disciples in Narrative Perspective: The Portrayal and Function of the Matthean Disciples. AcBib 9. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. Narrative-critical study of the disciples in Matthew’s Gospel, arguing that the disciples do not progress toward greater understanding as the story unfolds.

Brown, Raymond E. The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke. Rev. ed. ABRL. New York: Doubleday, 1993. A commentary on the Matthean and Lukan infancy narratives that also probes the role they played in the early Christian understanding of Jesus; contends that each one constitutes the essential gospel story in miniature.

Burnett, Fred W. The Testament of Jesus-Sophia: A Redaction-Critical Study of the Eschatological Discourse in Matthew. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1981. Argues that the “apocalyptic discourse” of Matthew (24:1–31) functions within the Gospel as a farewell speech that Jesus delivers in his capacity as Wisdom and as the (soon to be exalted) Son of Man.

Caragounis, Chrys C. Peter and the Rock. BZNW 58. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990. Examines Matthew 16:18 in terms of its philological background and exegetical context and concludes that the “rock” on which Jesus says his church is founded is not Peter, but rather is the confession that Jesus is the Christ.

Carter, Matthew, and John Paul Heil. Matthew’s Parables: Audience-Oriented Perspectives. CBQMS 30. Washington DC: Catholic Biblical Association, 1998.

Carter, Warren. Matthew and Empire: Initial Explorations. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2001.

Chae, Young S. Jesus as the Eschatological Shepherd: Studies in the Old Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and in the Gospel of Matthew. WUNT 2/116. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.

Charette, Blaine. The Theme of Recompense in Matthew’s Gospel. JSNTSup 79. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.

Clark, Howard. The Gospel of Matthew and Its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Cope, O. Lamar. Matthew: A Scribe Trained for the Kingdom of Heaven. CBQMS 5. Washington, DC: Catholic Biblical Association, 1976. Attempts to determine, by a minute literary analysis of selected passages, how Matthew has influenced the composition of his Gospel.

Crosby, Michael. House of Disciples: Church, Economics, and Justice in Matthew. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1988. An exploration into the socioeconomic milieu of Matthew that seizes on the notion of the household as a unifying theme that establishes the identity and concerns of early Christian churches in a preindustrial political economy.

Davies, W. D. The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964. Considers first-century influences, within both Judaism and the church, that led to the compilation and presentation of the moral teaching now known as the Sermon on the Mount.

Davis, James. Lex Talionis in Early Judaism and the Exhortation of Jesus in Matthew 5:38–42. JSNTSup 281. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Deutsch, Celia. Hidden Wisdom and the Easy Yoke: Wisdom, Torah and Discipleship in Matthew 11:25–30. JSNTSup 18. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1987. A redactional analysis of the wisdom themes in this text and their implications for Matthew’s view of discipleship.

Donaldson, Terence. Jesus on the Mountain: A Study in Matthean Theology. Sheffield: JSNTSup 8. JSOT Press, 1985. Finds the key to Matthew’s theology in the Sermon on the Mount.

Edwards, Richard A. Matthew’s Story of Jesus. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. Intends to examine the narrative of Matthew from the point of view of a first-time reader.

Ellis, Peter R. Matthew: His Mind and His Message. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1974. Aims to reach the mind of Matthew and to ascertain the theological message that he sought to communicate to his Jewish-Christian readers at the end of the first century.

France, R. T. Matthew: Evangelist and Teacher. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1989. An extended introduction to Matthew’s Gospel, treating such topics as sources, authorship, setting, and literary character, as well as selected themes.

Gale, Aaron M. Redefining Ancient Borders: The Jewish Scribal Framework of Matthew’s Gospel. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2005.

Garland, David E. The Intention of Matthew 23. NovTSup 52. Leiden: Brill, 1979. Proposes to uncover the intention Matthew pursued in writing chapter 23 by attending to the compositional makeup of the chapter and its place within the structure of the Gospel.

Garrow, Alan J. The Gospel of Matthew’s Dependence on the Didache. JSNTSup 254. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.

Gench, Frances Taylor. Wisdom in the Christology of Matthew. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1997.

Gerhardsson, Birger. The Mighty Acts of Jesus according to Matthew. Scripta Minora. Lund: Gleerup, 1979. Interprets the miracles or “mighty acts” that Matthew depicts Jesus or his followers performing in his Gospel.

———. The Testing of God’s Son: An Analysis of Early Christian Midrash. ConBNT 2. Lund: Gleerup, 1966. Analyzes Matthew 4:1–11 as an example of scribal exegesis similar to that which was practiced in the rabbinic schools of the Pharisees.

Gibbs, Jeffrey A. Jerusalem and Parousia: Jesus’s Eschatological Discourse in Matthew’s Gospel. St. Louis: Concordia Academic Press, 2000.

Goulder, M. D. Midrash and Lection in Matthew. London: SPCK, 1974. Maintains that Matthew’s Gospel is an adaptation and expansion of Mark’s Gospel by means of midrash and was written to be read in the setting of Christian worship.

Gray, Sherman W. The Least of My Brothers: Matthew 25:31–46: A History of Interpretation. SBLDS 114. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989. A history of the exegesis of this text from the patristic period to the present.

Gundry, Robert H. The Use of the Old Testament in St. Matthew’s Gospel. NovTSup 18. Leiden: Brill, 1967. Investigates the Old Testament quotations in Matthew’s Gospel with special reference to the theme of the fulfillment of messianic prophecy.

Ham, Clay Alan. The Coming King and the Rejected Shepherd: Matthew’s Reading of Zechariah’s Messianic Hope. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005.

Hare, Douglas R. A. The Theme of Jewish Persecution of Christians in the Gospel According to St. Matthew. SNTSMS 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967. Discusses the theme of Jewish persecution of Christians at the time of Matthew and aims both to show how such persecution has influenced the theology of Matthew and to argue that it was directed primarily against Christian missionaries.

Heil, John Paul. The Death and Resurrection of Jesus: A Narrative-Critical Reading of Matthew 26–28. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991. Uses narrative criticism to analyze the last three chapters of Matthew’s Gospel as a network of interlocking and alternating scenes.

Hendrickx, Herman. The Infancy Narratives. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1975. A description and comparison of the infancy stories in Matthew and Luke.

Horsley, Richard. The Liberation of Christmas: The Infancy Narratives in Social Context. New York: Crossroad, 1989. Focuses on the sociopolitical relationships portrayed in the infancy narratives and their implications for first-century Palestine and contemporary history.

Howell, David B. Matthew’s Inclusive Story: A Study in the Narrative Rhetoric of the First Gospel. JSNTSup 42. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990. Uses narrative and reader-response criticism to address the gap between Matthew’s past story of Jesus and present message for his own community. Concentrates on identifying the interpretive moves that Matthew’s “implied reader” is expected to make.

Jackson, Glenna S. “Have Mercy on Me”: The Story of the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21–28. JSNTSup 228. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Johnson, Marshall D. The Purpose of the Biblical Genealogies. SNTSMS 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Analyzes the genealogies of Matthew and Luke and understands them to be a form of literary expression that is used to articulate the conviction that Jesus is the fulfillment of the hope of Israel.

Jones, Ivor Harold. The Matthean Parables: A Literary and Historical Commentary. NovTSup 80. Leiden: Brill, 1995. A massive study of the parables that appear in Matthew’s Gospel.

Kilpatrick, G. D. The Origins of the Gospel according to Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946. Understands the Gospel to be the revision of a lectionary that grew up in answer to the liturgical needs of the community.

Kingsbury, Jack Dean. Matthew. 2nd ed. PC. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986. Standard introduction to the Gospel that presents an overview of its most important themes as understood through the methodology of redaction criticism.

———. Matthew as Story. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988. Treats the gospel story of Matthew by explaining literary-critical method, describing the major characters, and tracing the development of the story in terms of both Jesus’s conflict with his Jewish opponents and his interaction with his disciples.

———. Matthew: Structure, Christology, Kingdom. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1975. Examines the structure of Matthew’s Gospel and his view of the history of salvation, the titles of majesty that together constitute Matthew’s portrait of Jesus, and his concept of the kingdom of heaven, in the interest of explicating the theology that Matthew espouses.

———. The Parables of Jesus in Matthew 13. 3rd ed. London: SPCK, 1976. Investigates the eight parables that comprise Jesus’s parable speech in Matthew’s Gospel so as to ascertain the role this speech plays within this Gospel and to understand both Matthew’s theology and the situation of his church.

Kupp, David D. Matthew’s Emmanuel: Divine Presence and God’s People in the First Gospel. SNTSMS 90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

LaGrand, James. The Earliest Christian Mission to “All Nations” in the Light of Matthew’s Gospel. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Lambrecht, Jan. Out of the Treasures: The Parables in the Gospel of Matthew. LTPM 10. Louvain: Peeters, 1991. Discusses several key parables in Matthew’s Gospel with concern to elucidate both the original meaning during the life of Jesus and the redactional sense given to the story by Matthew.

Levine, Amy-Jill, ed. A Feminist Companion to Matthew. FCNTECW 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

———. The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Social History. SBEC 14. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1988. A literary and sociological study of Matthew by a Jewish feminist scholar who concludes that this Gospel exemplifies a breakdown in patriarchal viewpoints and transcends religious and ethnic differences by its appeal to moral behavior.

Luz, Ulrich. Matthew in History: Interpretation, Influence, and Effects. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

———. Studies in Matthew. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. A collection of essays and articles by a prominent Matthew scholar.

Malina, Bruce, and Jerome Neyrey. Calling Jesus Names: The Social Value of Labels in Matthew. Sonoma, CA: Polebridge, 1988. A study on the positive and negative labels that are attached to Jesus by his friends and foes in Matthew’s Gospel drawing from the insights of social anthropology.

Meier, John P. Law and History in Matthew’s Gospel: A Redactional Study of Mt. 5:17–48. AnBib 71. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1976. Plumbs the meaning of the statement on the law in Matthew 5:17–20 in light of the antitheses that follow and within the larger context of Matthew’s theology of salvation history, eschatology, and Christology.

———. The Vision of Matthew: Christ, Church, and Morality in the First Gospel. TI. New York: Paulist Press, 1979. A study of Matthew’s Gospel in three parts: (1) introduces the reader to Matthew and his situation; (2) argues that the special characteristic of the Gospel is the nexus between Christ and church; and (3) examines the relation to Christ and the law in Matthew 5:17–20.

Minear, Paul. Matthew: The Teacher’s Gospel. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1982. Focuses on the evangelist as a teacher and on his intended audience in the churches of the first century.

Mohrlang, Roger. Matthew and Paul: A Comparison of Ethical Perspectives. SNTSMS 48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Compares the basic structures of Matthew’s and Paul’s ethics, concluding that although the elements of law and grace are found in both, Matthew’s emphasis is on an ethical system based on law and submission to authority.

Montague, George T. Companion God: A Cross-Cultural Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. New York: Paulist Press, 1989. Reads through Matthew from beginning to end, offering comments from cultures of the developing world with particular interest in community, inculturation, and liberation theology.

Moses, A. D. A. Matthew’s Transfiguration Story and Jewish-Christian Controversy. JSNTSup 122. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

Newport, Kenneth G. C. The Sources and “Sitz im Leben” of Matthew 23. JSNTSup 117. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Neyrey, Jerome H., Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998.

Nolan, Brian M. The Royal Son of God: The Christology of Matthew 1–2 in the Setting of the Gospel. OBO 23. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979. Argues that underlying all titles of majesty that Matthew ascribes to Jesus is an integrative substratum: royal Davidic theology.

O’Grady, John F. The Gospel of Matthew: Question by Question. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2007.

O’Leary, Anne M. Matthew’s Judaization of Mark Examined in the Context of the Use of Sources in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. LNTS 323. London: T&T Clark, 2003.

Orton, David E. The Understanding Scribe: Matthew and the Apocalyptic Ideal. JSNTSup 25. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989. Interprets Matthew’s Gospel against the background of an apocalyptic scribal legacy that stood over against the better-known rabbinic legacy exemplified by the Pharisees.

Overman, J. Andrew. Matthew’s Gospel and Formative Judaism: The Social World of the Matthean Community. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990. Applies the methods of “sociology of knowledge” to define Matthew’s community as a sect within Judaism that nevertheless is engaged in fierce controversy with formative Judaism.

Palachuvattil, M. “The One Who Does the Will of My Father”: Distinguishing Character of Disciples according to Matthew. An Exegetical Theological Study. TGST 154. Rome: Editrice Pontifica Università Gregoriana, 2007.

Pattarumadathil, Henry. Your Father in Heaven: Discipleship in Matthew as a Process of Becoming Children of God. AnBib 172. Rome: Editrice Pontifico Instituto Biblico, 2008.

Pennington, Jonathan T. Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew. NovTSup 126. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Perlewitz, Miriam. The Gospel of Matthew. MBS 8. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1989. An exposition of Matthew’s attempt to address the spiritual needs of Christians in his day. Emphasizes this Gospel’s reliance on prophetic and wisdom expectations.

Powell, Mark Allan. Chasing the Eastern Star: Adventures in Reader-Response Criticism. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001. An introduction to reader-response criticism using Matthew’s Gospel as the “test case” document for application of methods and procedures. Includes a comprehensive analysis of the story of the magi.

———. God with Us: A Pastoral Theology of Matthew’s Gospel. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995. Provides treatments of five major themes in Matthew: mission, worship, teaching, stewardship, and social justice.

Pregeant, Russell. Christology beyond Dogma: Matthew’s Christ in Process Hermeneutic. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978. Argues—through an analysis of the “universalist” passages in Matthew that critique the otherwise exclusive claims of the evangelist—for a new methodological approach to understanding Matthew’s Christology.

Reeves, Keith Howard. The Resurrection Narrative in Matthew: A Literary-Critical Examination. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1993.

Repschinski, Boris. The Controversy Stories in the Gospel of Matthew: Their Redaction, Form and Relevance for the Relationship between the Matthean Community and Formative Judaism. FRLANT 189. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000.

Riches, John, and David C. Sim, eds. The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2005.

Saldarini, Anthony J. Matthew’s Christian-Jewish Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Scaer, David P. Discourses in Matthew: Jesus Teaches the Church. St. Louis: Concordia, 2004.

Senior, Donald. The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1985. Aims to elucidate the passion narrative of Matthew’s Gospel in both its historical background and its theological import as climax.

———. What Are They Saying about Matthew? Rev. ed. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1995. Survey of contemporary scholarship concerning the Gospel of Matthew.

Shuler, Philip L. A Genre for the Gospels. The Biographical Character of Matthew. Philadelphia, Fortress, 1982. Advances the thesis that Matthew’s Gospel belongs to the genre of ancient literature called “encomium” or “laudatory biography.”

Sigal, Phillip. The Hallakah of Jesus of Nazareth according to the Gospel of Matthew. New York: University Press of America, 1986. Examines two themes of Jesus’s teaching in Matthew, “sabbath” and “divorce,” in light of rabbinic tradition.

Sim, David. Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Gospel of Matthew. SNTSMS 88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

———. The Gospel of Matthew and Christian Judaism: The History and Social Setting of the Matthean Community. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998.

Stanton, Graham N. A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1992.

———, ed. The Interpretation of Matthew. IRT 3. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983. Collection of eight articles on Matthew’s Gospel that have been translated from the German and are introduced by the editor.

Stendahl, Krister. The School of St. Matthew. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968. Discusses the Old Testament quotations in Matthew’s Gospel and makes a comparison of certain of its literary features with the Habakkuk commentary from Qumran with a view to advancing the thesis that Matthew’s Gospel was used as a manual for teaching and administration within the church.

Suggs, M. Jack. Wisdom, Christology, and Law in Matthew’s Gospel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. Investigates the figure of Wisdom in Matthew’s Gospel and aims to show that Wisdom constitutes a fundamental part of Matthew’s theology and that Matthew has identified Wisdom with Christ.

Thompson, William G. Matthew’s Advice to a Divided Community: Mt. 17,22–18,35. AnBib 44. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1970. Analyzes the structure and theology of the ecclesiological discourse and pays special attention to the many literary techniques that Matthew has employed in composing this section.

Tilborg, Sjef Van. The Jewish Leaders in Matthew. Leiden: Brill, 1972. Studies the texts in Matthew’s Gospel dealing with the Jewish leaders as an index of Matthew’s relation to contemporary Judaism and concludes that Matthew regards all the Jewish leaders equally as representatives of the one Israel that his church must face.

Van de Sandt, Hubb, ed. Matthew and the Didache: Two Documents from the Same Jewish-Christian Milieu? Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.

Via, Dan O., Jr. Self-Deception and Wholeness in Paul and Matthew. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990. Book’s second half, heavily influenced by Jungian psychology, relates Matthew’s concept of hypocrisy to an existentialist understanding of self-deception.

Waetjen, Herman C. The Origin and Destiny of Humanness. Corte Madera, CA: Omega Books, 1976. Understands Matthew’s Gospel as a “Book of Origin” written to convey to upper-class Christian Jews at home in Syrian Antioch the self-understanding that they constitute the community of Jesus, the new Human Being, who has inaugurated the new humankind.

Wainwright, Elaine M. Shall We Look for Another? A Feminist Re-Reading of the Matthean Jesus. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2000.

Weaver, Dorothy Jean. Matthew’s Missionary Discourse: A Literary-Critical Analysis. JSNTSup 38. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1990. Exegesis of Matthew 10:5–42, with the understanding that Jesus is addressing Matthew’s “implied reader.”

Westerholm, Stephen. Understanding Matthew: The Early Christian Worldview of the First Gospel. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

Wilkins, Michael. The Concept of Disciple in Matthew’s Gospel: As Reflected in the Use of the Term “Mathetes.” NovTSup 59. Leiden: Brill, 1988. An extensive word study of the Greek term for “disciple” and its special use in Matthew’s Gospel.

Wilson, Alistair I. When Will These Things Happen? A Study of Jesus as Judge in Matthew 21–25. PBM. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2005.

Yieh, John Yueh-Han. One Teacher: Jesus’s Teaching Report in Matthew’s Gospel Report. BZNW 124. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004.

Academic Studies and Commentaries on the Sermon on the Mount

Bauman, Clarence. The Sermon on the Mount: The Modern Quest for Its Meaning. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1985. A scholarly review of ways in which the Sermon on the Mount has been interpreted in the twentieth century. Includes writers such as Tolstoy and Bonhoeffer along with the expected roster of Bible scholars.

Betz, Hans Dieter. Essays on the Sermon on the Mount. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985. Reconstructs the Sermon on the Mount as a pre-Matthean source dating from around 50 CE and sees it as an epitome of the theology of Jesus written from the perspective of early Jewish Christianity.

Carter, Warren. What Are they Saying about Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount? Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1994. A survey of scholarship.

Crosby, Michael. Spirituality of the Beatitudes: Matthew’s Challenge for First-World Christians. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1982. Challenges the church to explore the spiritual, social, and political implications of the Beatitudes.

Davies, W. D. The Sermon on the Mount. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966. A condensation of the main points presented in the author’s classic study, The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount.

———. The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964. Considers first-century influences, within both Judaism and the church, that led to the compilation and presentation of the moral teaching that is commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount.

Donaldson, Terence. Jesus on the Mountain: A Study in Matthean Theology. JSNTSup 8. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985. Finds the key to Matthew’s theology in the Sermon on the Mount.

Greenman, Jeffrey P., Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer, eds. The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries: From the Early Church to John Paul II. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.

Guelich, Robert A. The Sermon on the Mount. Waco: Word, 1982. A commentary that views God’s personal covenant through Jesus as a vantage point from which to understand the sermon within the context of Matthew’s Gospel as a whole.

Hamm, Dennis. The Beatitudes in Context: What Luke and Matthew Meant. ZS. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1990. Offers a preliminary discussion on the nature of beatitudes, followed by interpretations of the Lukan and Matthean beatitudes in the context of their respective Gospels.

Hendrickx, Herman. The Sermon on the Mount. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1984. An exposition of this important text by a leading Roman Catholic scholar.

Jeremias, Joachim. The Sermon on the Mount. Translated by Norman Perrin. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963. Traces the development of the sermon to its present form and understands its original function as a catechism for early converts.

Lambrecht, Jan. The Sermon on the Mount: Proclamation and Exhortation. GNS 14. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1985. A comparative study of Matthew 5–7 and Luke 6:20–49, with interest in contemporary application.

Lapide, Pinchas. The Sermon on the Mount: Utopia or Program for Action? Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1986. Interprets Jesus’s famous sermon within the context of rabbinic Judaism.

Matthias, Philip. The Perfect Prayer: Search for the Kingdom through the Lord’s Prayer. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 2005.

O’Collins, Gerald. The Lord’s Prayer. New York: Paulist Press, 2007.

Scaer, David P. Discourses in Matthew: Jesus Teaches the Church. St. Louis: Concordia, 2004.

———. The Sermon on the Mount: The Church’s First Statement of the Gospel. St. Louis: Concordia, 2000.

Shinn, Roger L. The Sermon on the Mount: A Guide to Jesus’s Most Famous Sermon. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1954. An uncritical but very popular treatment of Matthew 5–7 that uses illustrations from diverse fields to elucidate the message of the sermon for today.

Stevenson, Kenneth W. The Lord’s Prayer: A Text in Tradition. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004.

Strecker, Georg. The Sermon on the Mount: An Exegetical Commentary. Nashville: Abingdon, 1987. An interpretation of Matthew 5–7 by a leading redaction critic who regards the sermon not as a speech made by Jesus but rather as the literary work of the evangelist Matthew.

Talbert, Charles H. Reading the Sermon on the Mount: Character Formation and Decision Making in Matthew 5–7. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

Van Aarde, Andries. God-With-Us: The Dominant Perspective in Matthew’s Story, and Other Essays. HvTStSup 5. Pretoria: Periodical Section of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika, 1994.

Vaught, Carl G. The Sermon on the Mount: A Theological Investigation. Rev. ed. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2002.