The structuring of Jesus' teaching into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law.

But nevertheless, Matthew wants this to be understood as a legitimate new interpretation of the law ... just like the five books of Torah. There are a lot of elements in this story that resemble ...

and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. Every year NTA abstracts approximately 1,500 articles chosen from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages. Hundreds of books are ...

Going to the 10th chapter of John’s gospel, in verses 1 through 14, we find Jesus referring to himself as the Good Shepherd, ...

Matthew wrote for a Jewish community in conflict ... of theological disagreement. And the New Testament tells a story of a broken relationship, and that's part of the sad story that evolves ...

In several of Jesus’s illustrative, fictional stories called parables, the Gospel of Matthew includes references ... this literary genre in the New Testament book of Revelation, where it is ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament ... (Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 11:25). Besides denoting the Jewish and Christian religions, the terms "Old" and "New" Testaments also designate the sacred ...