Essays on the Sermon on the Mount

by Hans Dieter Betz

Book Overview

"A diligent and carefully argued exercise in the historico-critical method, Hans Dieter Betz' Essays present the Sermon on the Mount (SM) as a pre-Matthean composition coming from a Jewish-Christian community engaged in the polemical process of constructing an identity vis- -vis mainstream Jewish (Pharisaic) groups on the one hand and emerging Gentile Christianity on the other. It is this process that prompts the SM compiler(s) to rethink and rework...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800663047
• ISBN13: 9780800663049
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"