A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew Hsuan-Ming Wang Jan Masaoka

Jan Masaoka

and thereby start to imagine and build alternative worlds

Constant references to the Cambridge University of Leavis's time may make the book seem parochial and dated

[Moore] has a lot to offer those who like verbal flexibility and thought-provoking aphorisms

shame and trauma -- and how it is possible to carve out a safe place in the world despite it all

A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew Hsuan-Ming Wang Jan MasaokaYou see the full character of Christ through the four different portraits in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Each of them is painting a different picture not a contradictory one, but filling it out with a new aspect. Matthew paints the King of the Jews. That is his object. We now suddenly realise why Matthew is the first in the New Testament, even if it was not the first to be written. The answer is that it is the nearest Gospel to the Old Testament,