The death of Jesus in Matthew : innocent blood and the end of exile / Catherine Sider Hamilton.

This book explores 'innocent blood' and its traditions as keys to the death of Jesus in Matthew, against background of exile and return.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Hamilton, Catherine Sider (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ; 166.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title ; Series information ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; Permissions ; List of Abbreviations ; I Introduction ; 1 Introducing the Question ; Matt 27:25 and the Intra-Muros/Extra-Muros Debate.
  • The Theme of Innocent Blood: Questions of Method and Approach Narrative Criticism ; Traditions of Interpretation ; Insistent Historicity ; Innocent Blood in Matthew and Second Temple Jewish and Rabbinic Literature ; The Cain and Abel Traditions ; The Zechariah Traditions ; Conclusion.
  • 2 Innocent Blood in the Gospel of Matthew: A Narrative-Critical StudyInnocent Blood in the Passion Narrative ; Matt 27:24-25 and Matt 27:3-10 ; Matt 27:24-25 and Matt 23:35 ; Matt 23:35 and 27:3-10 ; Innocent Blood in the ''Massacre of the Innocents''
  • The Meaning of Innocent Blood through the Lens of the Blood of the Innocents: Scholarly Readings of 2:16-18 and 27:25 and an Alternative Proposition The Scope of Innocent Blood: The Question of Israel ; Conclusion ; II Innocent Blood in Second Temple Jewish and Rabbinic Literature.
  • 3 1 Enoch and the Cosmic Sweep of Innocent Blood: From Cain and Blood to Flood and Judgment1 Enoch 6-11 and Genesis ; 1 Enoch 6-11 and Genesis 6:1-11 ; 1 Enoch 6-11 and Genesis 4: Echoes of Abel ; From Bloodshed to Flood: The Paradigm of Purity and Pollution ; Flood as Eschatological Cataclysm.