Theology

Joshua E. Leim

Matthew's Theological Grammar

The Father and the Son

[Matthäus' theologische Grammatik. Der Vater und der Sohn.]

2015. XIII, 298 pages.

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe 402

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Are the identity of God and Jesus Christ inseparably related in Matthew's Gospel? Joshua Leim argues for this relationship in Matthew's narrative by attending to two linguistic patterns woven deeply into the entire narrative's presentation of Jesus: Matthew's christological use of »worship« language and his paternal-filial idiom.
To say that the first Gospel is about Jesus is to state what any reader knows from the most cursory glance at Matthew's narrative. Yet the scholarly discourse about Jesus' identity in Matthew reveals a fundamental confusion about how to articulate the identity of Jesus vis-à-vis »God« in the narrative.
In this work, Joshua Leim attempts to bring greater clarity to the articulation of Jesus' identity in Matthew by attending more precisely to two linguistic patterns woven deeply into the entire narrative's presentation of Jesus: Matthew's christological use of »worship/obeisance« language (proskyneō) and his paternal-filial idiom. Along with exploring the role these linguistic patterns play in the narrative, the author attempts to hear such language in relation to early Judaism and its articulation of the identity of the God of Israel. The study of these various elements yields the conclusion that the identity of God and Jesus Christ are inseparably related in Matthew's Gospel. Matthew articulates the identity of Israel's God around the Father-Son relation.
Authors/Editors

Joshua E. Leim Born 1979; 2008 MDiv and MAC from Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, FL; 2012–14 instructor of Hellenistic Greek at Duke Divinity School; currently instructor of New Testament and Greek at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Journal for the Study of the New Testament (JSNT) — 39.5 (2017), S. 38–39 (Jane Heath)
In: New Testament Abstracts — 60 (2016), S. 155
In: Revue Biblique — 124 (2017), S. 130–135 (Anthony Giambrone)
In: Journal of the Ev. Theol. Society — 60 (2017), S. 411–414 (Wesley G. Olmstead)
In: Bibel und Kirche – Biblische Bücherschau — http://www.biblische-buecherschau.de/ (7/2017) (Lena Lütticke)
In: Review of Biblical Literature — https://www.bookreviews.org (6/2018) (Steven M. Bryan)
In: Themelios — https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/review/matthews-theological-grammar (Nicholas G. Piotrowski)
In: Filologia Neotestamentaria — 33 (2020), p. 225
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