Isaiah's Christ in Matthew's Gospel (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 11
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 13
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 19
Thesis......Page 21
Problems......Page 23
Guiding presuppositions and assumptions......Page 26
Limitations......Page 28
Method......Page 29
Procedure......Page 31
2 HISTORY OF RESEARCH......Page 32
Matthew’s use of the Old Testament......Page 35
The formula quotations......Page 40
Source and text-form of the formula quotations......Page 42
Rhetorical function......Page 48
The Servant of the Lord......Page 52
A semantic description of usage......Page 54
Servant and messiah......Page 60
3 TEXTS AND EARLY JEWISH EXEGESIS......Page 62
Jewish exegesis......Page 63
Exegesis and the biblical text in Second Temple Judaism......Page 67
Current state of research......Page 70
Manuscripts of Isaiah......Page 74
Exegesis and the manuscripts......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 78
Early Christian use of the Old Testament: text and exegesis......Page 79
Historical antecedents and early Jewish usage of Isaiah 42.1–4......Page 82
The Septuagint and corporate Israel......Page 83
Non-messianic individual readings......Page 86
Possible employment with messianic readings......Page 88
Messianism......Page 89
The Dead Sea Scrolls......Page 92
The Similitudes of Enoch and Psalms of Solomon......Page 93
Targums......Page 98
Later Judaism......Page 101
Conclusion......Page 102
4 ISAIANIC FORMULA QUOTATIONS IN MATTHEW......Page 104
Analysis of Isaianic formula quotations......Page 106
The relationship of the citation to context and meaning......Page 108
The relationship of the citation to context and meaning......Page 120
The relationship of the citation to context and meaning......Page 132
Conclusions......Page 137
5 ISAIAH 42.1–4 WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MATTHEW 11–13......Page 140
An overview of Matthew’s text-form......Page 141
12.18a......Page 143
12.18b......Page 150
12.19......Page 151
12.20......Page 153
12.21......Page 156
Conclusions regarding Matthew’s text-form of 12.18–21......Page 157
An analysis of Matthew 12.18–21......Page 159
The relation of text-form to context and meaning......Page 166
Theological usage......Page 169
The enigmatic messiah described and identified......Page 171
The Spirit,  justice and the final age......Page 173
Justice, messiah and the messianic age......Page 179
Justice, Law observance and God’s people......Page 182
Leadership, Law and oppression......Page 183
The failure of Pharisaic leadership......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 190
6 THE CHRISTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION OF ISAIAH 42.1–4......Page 192
The apologetic Jesus defined......Page 196
The Son of David, the Spirit and the Kingdom of God......Page 199
The restoration of God’s people in the Temple......Page 201
Matthew 25.31–46 and the ethical king......Page 204
Isaiah 42.1–4 and Matthew’s ethical christology......Page 207
7 CONCLUSION......Page 210
Primary sources......Page 216
Commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew......Page 217
Secondary works......Page 219
Hebrew Bible......Page 243
Old Testament Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha......Page 246
New Testament......Page 247
Early Jewish literature......Page 251
Graeco-Roman literature......Page 253
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 255
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 259