REL-2020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Messiah In Judaism
13 Sep 2016
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One of the aspects about the gospel of matthew that i found to be most interesting is the way in which matthew portrays jesus to the reader. If the gospel of matthew were the only. Jesus is one who attacks the jewish leaders of his day and is eventually rejected and put to death by these same leaders. Throughout the entire gospel, the reader sees over and over again how the author makes use of many texts and construes them in such a way as to portray jesus as the. Jewish messiah sent by the jewish god to the jewish people in fulfillment of the jewish. One way in which jesus is constantly portrayed as the jewish messiah is through the. Fulfillment citations found throughout the gospel of matthew, which show that jesus is the long-awaited messiah of the jews, come to fulfill the jewish scriptures.
