The message articulated by Jesus from the mount was certainly different-totally different-from anything the people had ever heard before. Says Briscoe, 'When Jesus Christ arrived on the scene two t…
Like a mighty mountain, the sermon on the mount continues to attract persons of different backgrounds and traditions. There is general agreement that the sermon offers a compendium of the teachings…
This book transmitted by the evangelist Matthew is an unusual, not to say uncanny, text in many respects. It impresses one first of all by its simplicity and straightforwardness; it addresses its r…
This commentary is designated as a critical-historical commentary which deliberately contrasts the more familiar historical-critical commentary which often connotes a school of thought, whereas, th…
This is an excellent book. I've read it twice and I will read it again. I found a copy of it in a used bookstore and it was in pretty good condition. The second time I read it I had to tape the out…
This book is the fourth in a notable quartet of "series sermons" based on familiar and central biblical materials which have appeared recently in English from the hands of the same author-translato…
"This book can act …as a map for the field, as a guide for the reader’s further engagement with the ongoing dialogue about the Sermon. It will be clear that I [Carter] do not always agree with …
Sermon on the mount is found int he fifth, sixth and seventh chapters of Matthew's gospel and it is the purpose of this collection to examine each of those chapters in detail. Before we get on with…
Thurston begins with a study of the Beatitudes that introduces what Jesus might have meant by Kingdom of Heaven. She then looks at passages from the Sermon on the Mount and discusses their implicat…