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OUT OF PRINT BOOKS:
REQUIRED READINGS: (on Library Reserve)
A Bible: One of the following versions: The Peoples' Bible: New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocrypha (Fortress Press, 2008) ...recommended if you do not have a "study bible" or Oxford Annotated Bible; Harper Collins Annotated Bible; New Interpreter's Study Bible; Catholic Study Bible; Also acceptable: New Revised Standard Version; New American Bible; Jerusalem Bible; New English Bible; New International Version, or King James Version. BUT NOT a "paraphrased" versions, e.g., The Living Bible.
Mark Allan Powell, Introduction to the Gospels (1994)
Daniel Patte, Monya Stubbs, Justin Ukpong, Revelation Velunta, The Gospel of Matthew: A Contextual Introduction (2003).
Janice Anderson and Stephen Moore, eds. Mark and Method: New Approaches In Biblical Studies (2008).
Daniel Patte, The Challenge of Discipleship: A Critical Study of the Sermon on the Mount as Scripture (T&T Clark/Continuum; 1999)
David Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel Smyth & Helwys Publishing (February 1999)
Warren Carter, Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading (Bible and Liberation Series) Paperback (Orbis, 2000)
[Daniel Patte, The Gospel According to Matthew: A Commentary on Matthew's Faith. Fortress Press 1986 [out of print; multiple copies on reserve in the library]
RECOMMENDED: (ordered for bookstore; and on Library Reserve)
Daniel Patte, Editor Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, (about $30)
Short reading for each week on all kinds of topics will be suggested throughout the semester; to be used for you paper as well… and for your other classes.
ALSO RECOMMENDED:
Brian Blount, Cultural Interpretation: Reorienting New Testament Criticism (1995) (Part of the theory behind contextual biblical studies)
Roland Meynet, A New Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels (Convivium, 2010) (A different way of comparing the gospels.)
Nicole Duran, James Grimshaw, eds. Matthew: Texts @ Contexts Series, Fortress Press (forthcoming; October 2011; if it arrives!)
SUGGESTED READINGS: (not ordered; ON LIBRARY RESERVE or in READING ROOM)
W. D. Davies and Allison, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Saint Matthew (International Critical Commentary, Vol. 1, 2, and 3)
Herbert Basser, The Mind Behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Matthew 1-14 Academic Studies Press (2009)
Donald Hagner, Matthew 1-13 (Vol 1) and Matthew 14-28 (vol 2) Word Biblical Commentary
Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Matthew (Sacra Pagina) Michael Glazier Books (2007)
Craig Keener, The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary Eerdmans Publishing Company ( 2009)
Amy-Jill Levine, The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Salvation History
Amy-Jill Levine & Marianne Blickenstaff, Feminist Companion to Matthew Sheffield Academic Press (2001)
Ulrich Luz, vol. 1 Matthew 1-7: A Commentary; vol. 2 Matthew 8-20: A Commentary; vol. 3 Matthew 21-28: A Commentary (Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible) Fortress Press
Daniel Patte, with J. Severino Croatto, Nicole Wilkinson Duran, Teresa Okure, Archie Chi Chung Lee, eds. Global Bible Commentary Abingdon (2004).
Russell Pregeant, Matthew: Chalice Commentary for Today (Chalice Commentaries for Today) 2004
Elaine Mary Wainwright, Shall We Look for Another?: A Feminist Reading of the Matthean Jesus (Bible & Liberation Series) Orbis 1998