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Author Carter, Warren

Title Households and Discipleship : a Study of Matthew 19-20
Published London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series The Library of New Testament Studies
Library of New Testament studies.
Contents Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE COHERENCY OF MATTHEW 19-20 AND MATT HAEAN DISCIPLESHIP?; Chapter 2 METHODS; Chapter 3 MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE: MATTHEW 19.3-12; Chapter 4 CHILDREN, HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURES AND DISCIPLESHIP:MATTHEW 19.13-15; Chapter 5 DISCIPLESHIP AND WEALTH: MATTHEW 19.16-30; Chapter 6 THE PARABLE OF THE HOUSEHOLDER: MATTHEW 20.1-16; Chapter 7 ''IT SHALL NOT BE SO AMONG YOU'': MATTHEW 20.17-28; Chapter 8 OPENING EYES: MATTHEW 20.29-34; Chapter 9 CONCLUSION; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
Summary This study addresses the question of whether a coherent sequence of pericopes can be identified in Matthew chapters 19-20. Employing audience-oriented criticism, it argues that the authorial audience's knowledge of the philosophical tradition concerning household structures provides that coherent sequence. But the audience also encounters in these chapters a critique of the household tradition's patriarchal and hierarchical structure of the rule of husband over wife, father over children, master over slaves, and the accumulation of wealth as an indicator of social identity. It understands that
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SUBJECT Bible. Matthew, XIX-XX -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Subject Christian life -- Biblical teaching.
Families -- Biblical teaching.
Households -- Biblical teaching
Christian life -- Biblical teaching
Families -- Biblical teaching
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567632357
0567632350