Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: The scholarly debate about the social setting of the Matthean community has \nlargely focused on the single but complex issue of the relationship between the \nMatthean community and the Jewish world. In the last decade, there has been strong support for the view that Matthew's conflict with the scribes and Pharisees was taking place within the sphere of Judaism; the conflict was between two types of Judaism, formative Judaism and Christian Judaism, rather than between Judaism and Christianity. But if this view is correct, and the Matthean community \ndid indeed comprise followers of Jesus who observed the Torah and identified \ntheir religious tradition as Judaism, then it raises questions concerning the \nrelationship between Matthew's community and other groups, notably the Gentiles \nand other Christians who did not observe the Jewish Law (e g Pauline Christians).
Author: David C. Sim
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W195536887