The Structure of Matthew | R. T. France
Deep Dive into The Structure of Matthew by R. T. FranceIn his 2007 commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, R. T. France notes that the text lacks explicit structural markers from the original author, leading to various interpretations of its outline. One approach by B. W. Bacon divides the gospel into five books based on concluding phrases at the end of Jesus's discourses, but France notes this is not widely accepted as the central structural principle. Another method by Kingsbury and Bauer uses the phrase "From that time Jesus began to" to divide the text into three sections focusing on Jesus's…
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