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At the seminar table:

Stephen Webb
Trevor Bechtel
Margaret Adam
Phil Kenneson
A. K. M. Adam



Comments, queries, feedback to: A K M Adam

I highlighted the "obviously" there because I took it to refer not to the claim that Matthew criticizes Judaism (that really would be obvious!) but to the claim that he does so within Judaism. That is, I thought you were saying that it is obvious to historians now that Matthew was working within Judaism, not against it, and that claim was not obvious to readers of the text a few generations ago, who probably saw Matthew as standing outside of Judaism--indeed, most conservative Christians probably still see Matthew as Standing outside of Judaism altogether. So I think there is historical progress in that most people today acknowledge that Matthew was writing with Judaism.

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