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dc.contributor.advisorBauckham, Richard
dc.contributor.authorGrant, Macaskill
dc.coverage.spatial364 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-31T08:40:26Z
dc.date.available2015-08-31T08:40:26Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.519449
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7356
dc.description.abstractRecent scholarship has demonstrated that Matthew's gospel has significantly developed both sapiential and apocalyptic elements within its narrative. Little attention has been paid, however, to the question of how these two features of Matthew's gospel might relate to one another. It is this gap in scholarly literature that the present study is intended to fill, by means of a comparative study with two other texts of mixed genre: 1 Enoch and 4Qlnstruction. An examination of these texts demonstrates that each is marked by an inaugurated eschatology, within which the revealing of wisdom to an elect group, defined in distinction to the Jewish parent group, serves as the pivotal moment of inauguration. In addition, within 4Qlnstruction the idea is developed that possession of this revealed wisdom allows the remnant to live in fidelity to the will of the Creator and to the patterns built-in to the original creation. Thus, possession of revealed wisdom facilitates a recovery of creation. These findings provide lines of enquiry that may be brought to Matthew. Three sections of the gospel are examined (chapters 5-7; 11-12; 24-25). It is argued that Jesus is presented as an eschatological figure who reveals wisdom to an elect group. This wisdom cannot be reduced to great moral insight or interpretation of Torah, but is presented as prophetic revelation, happening in eschatological time. It remains the case, however, that Matthew presents it as wisdom and presents Jesus as a sage. More tentatively, it is suggested that creation provides the patterns for the ethical requirements of Jesus' wisdom, thus indicating that the idea of restored creation is also at work in Matthew. The fall of the temple may also be connected in Matthew's narrative to such a restoration, but again, the evidence for this is not clear.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subject.lccBS2575.52M28
dc.subject.lcshBible. N.T. Matthew -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_US
dc.subject.lcshBible. O.T. Apocrypha. Enoch, 1st -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_US
dc.subject.lcsh4QInstruction -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_US
dc.subject.lcshWisdom in literature.en_US
dc.subject.lcshWisdom -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.en_US
dc.subject.lcshApocalyptic literature.en_US
dc.titleWisdom and apocalyptic in the Gospel of Matthew : a comparative study with 1 Enoch and 4QInstructionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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