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By David W. Jorgensen

This reception historical past of the Gospel of Matthew makes use of theoretical frameworks and literary assets from mostly precise disciplines, patristic stories and Valentinian (a.k.a. “Gnostic”) experiences. the writer exhibits how within the moment and 3rd centuries, the Valentinians have been very important members to a shared tradition of early Christian exegesis. by way of studying using an analogous Matthean pericopes via either Valentinian and patristic exegetes, the writer demonstrates that definite Valentinian exegetical options have been influential upon, and finally followed through, patristic authors. leader between Valentinian contributions contain the allegorical interpretation of texts that might develop into a part of the hot testomony, a cosmopolitan concept of the old and theological dating among Christians and Jews, and certainly the very conceptualization of the Gospel of Matthew as sacred scripture. This learn demonstrates that what could finally emerge from this era because the ecclesiological and theological heart can't be accurately understood with no getting to a few teams and contributors that experience frequently been depicted, either by means of next ecclesiastical leaders and sleek students, as marginal and heretical.

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