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Heralded as "an epoch-making book" by F. F. Bruce when it first
appeared, Robert H. Gundry's commentary on the Gospel of Matthew stands
as a benchmark in biblical scholarship to modern methodology. No
commentary in recent history has sparked such passionate discussion
among evangelical scholars, and scholars of other persuasions have also
paid considerable attention to this work.
In response to the plethora of evaluations afforded his text since its
publication in 1982, Gundry has issues this second edition. Included are
an extensive new preface taking up criticisms that reviewers and other
readers lodged against the first edition, a new appendix, and 225 new
endnotes that expand the commentary and provide fresh reflections on the
text.
This bold, well-informed study retains the redaction-critical
methodology of Gundry's original work and the host of provocative
interpretations that result. Elucidated afresh are Gundry's conviction
that Matthew relied on the Gospel of Mark and the document "Q" and
Gundry's arguments for a combination of historical data and theological
embellishments in passages such as those that present the birth of
Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, and Peter's walking on the water. The
new preface offers expanded evidence that Jewish literary tradition was
concerned more with theological development than with historical
exactitude.
Gundry's Matthew now provides not only truly engrossing biblical
scholarship but also an excellent example of constructive professional
dialogue between academicians. Students, pastors, and theologians will
find here a wealth of scrupulous hermeneutical research and
thought-provoking answers to many open questions in textual studies.
