BIBL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jewish Christian, Redaction Criticism, Q Source
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Mark > matthew & luke < q source. A critical approach that gives attention to the work of the redactor or editor. This approach is meant to highlight the distinctive voice and theology of each evangelist: emendation analysis: additions, omissions, alterations, etc, composition analysis: arrangement and framing (bigger picture) Matthew arranges his material into five blocks of teaching and narrative. Could have something to do with the pentateuch. Matthew understand jesus as a second moses. Date: 80s (give or take a decade) (destruction of the temple in 70 ce) Audience: written for an audience that was very jewish but didn"t really like jews. Authorship: matthew, a tax collector and one of the twelve: greek speaker who knew aramaic or hebrew, probably a jewish christian. The structure: three clusters of 14 generations. The women: tamar, rahab, ruth, and the wife of uriah. Five fulfillment quotations in the infancy narrative.
