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ISBN-13: | 9781606085561 |
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Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
Publication date: | 09/03/2010 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 222 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Preface ix
Part 1 Constructing A Narrative 1
1 The Homecoming Story 5
Conspicuous Entrances
The Circle in the Text
A Village, a Town, and a City
2 Discourses in Conflict 33
A Clash of Discourses
Two Hills
Mark-in-Matthew: The Markan Intertext
3 The Return of the King 57
The Films
The Formula in Literature: The Odyssey and Hamlet
Studies of the Ancient Classics
Mapping the Formula Story onto Matthew
Part 2 Banished King; Exiled Nation 81
4 Usurper 87
The Wicked Uncle
Matthew's Genealogy (Matt 1:1-17)
Joseph's First Dream: The Hero's Mandate (Matt 1:18-25)
The Magi Come and Depart (Matt 2:1-12)
5 Impostor 109
Impostors
Hypocrites
Matthew as Postcolonial Text
Conclusions: Conflict in the Narrative Plot
6 Mentor 139
Mentors
From Desert to Garden
Retribution
Transcendence
Part 3 The Reckoning 163
7 Nostos 167
Temple and Garden
Innocent Blood
Go Forth to All Nations
Bibliography 193
Subject/Name Index 201
What People are Saying About This
"It's an age-old issue, pervasive in our literature, yet not engaged enough by contemporary biblical scholarship. With an eye on both the past and the present, as well as on Matthew's Gospel and various intertexts, Robert Beck profitably and insightfully explores the complex manifestations and interactions of violence and non-violence."
-Warren Carter, Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School at TCU
"Beck's Banished Messiah is superb, contrasting Jesus' nonviolence with dominant culture's 'hero myths' in which a prince or princess is exiled (banished) and returns home, only to retaliate against and destroy enemies. Matthew confounds myths that animate the entertainment fare. Surprises abound: genealogies theologically and ethically significant, comparative visions of John the Baptist and Jesus, and the magi as Matthew's mentor! 'Places' theologically significant in Matthew (Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Galilee) interact with 'plot design.' In Matthew, as well as Mark (Matthew's intertext), the banished one does not return for revenge upon enemies.
Beck's narrative style crafts a rich exposition of Matthew. He considers dissonant parts in Matthew (e.g. Jesus' diatribe against the Pharisees) that might counter Jesus' nonviolence in Matthew. Beck provides perceptive solutions, in dialogue with Gandhi and Gene Sharp on nonviolence.
Beck's presentation of Matthew carries the reader like a good novel. To quote one sentence: '[The Gospel story] does not allow a violent reprisal, the result is that the expected resolution of the violent formula story is replaced. The latter's symmetry is disrupted and broken, introducing an amnesty and refusing readers the bloody satisfactions of revenge' (108). Judgment of evil is deferred to God. Matthew gives us a 'meta-narrative' of political realism that culturally cross-cuts, shattering all pretenses of power."
-Willard M. Swartley,_Professor Emeritus of New Testament,_Associated Mennonite Seminary