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  title info:
    title: Israel's only shepherd
    sub title: Matthew's shepherd motif and his social setting
  name:
    name part: Baxter, Wayne.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Despite being recognized as the most 'Jewish' Gospel, many argue that Matthew was penned by someone who sought to distance himself from Judaism. Scholars have used diverse approaches for determining the relationship between Matthew and the variegated Judaism of the first century, but few recognize the important piece that the Evangelist's Christology, in particular the shepherd motif, brings to the puzzle of his socio-religious orientation. Wayne Baxter contends that there are distinctive tendencies in the shepherd metaphor's appropriation by non-Christ-believing Jewish and Graeco-Roman authors as well as Christ-believing authors approximately contemporary with Matthew, which reflect distinct patterns of thought. By comparing these uses of the shepherd metaphor Baxter unearths clues about the Evangelist's socio-religious orientation. Baxter is able to use this to determines the metaphor's contribution to the overall theological framework of the Gospel, specifically, its Christology, soteriology and the Evangelist's view of mission. Moreover, he is able to ascertain Matthew's socio-religious orientation, and thus, and its implications for the debate surrounding the 'parting of the ways' between Judaism and Christianity.
  table of contents: General introduction -- pt. 1. The shepherd metaphor in literature related to Matthew. The Hebrew Bible -- The text of NCB Jews, Romans, and Christ-believers -- pt. 2. Matthew's shepherd motif and its socio-religious implications. A literal analysis of Matthew's shepherd motif -- Matthew's socio-religious orientation -- Conclusions.
  note: Wayne Baxter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-207) and indexes.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Matthew
    topic: Theology
  subject:
    topic: Shepherds in the Bible
  classification: 226.206
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Library of New Testament studies ; 457
  related item:
    title info:
      title: T & T Clark library of biblical studies
  identifier: 9780567066619
  identifier: 0567066614
  identifier: 2011278047
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 110728
    record change date: 20151202170659.0
    record identifier: in00002749621