The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount

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a serious study of the Sermon, explores New Exodus and New Moses motifs, Jewish Messianic Expectations, the setting/background of early Judaism, early Christianity and Jesus’ ministry Introduction The Setting in Matthew - Pentanteuchal motifs - New Exodus and New Moses - Mosaic Categories Transcended The Setting in Jewish Messianic Expectation - The Old Testament - The Apocrypha, Psuedepigrapha and Dead Sea Scrolls - The Rabbincal Sources The Setting in Contemporary Judaism - Gnosticism - The Dead Sea Sect - Jamnia The Setting in the Early Church - Anti-Paulinism - Paul and Tradition - Q and Crisis - M and Gemara - The Epistle of James and the Johannine Sources The Setting in the Ministry of Jesus - Transmission of the Words - The Teacher - The Eschatological Preacher - The Rabbi - The Demand of Jesus in its Setting Appendices Bibliography