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Listen as Dr. Anders Runesson (University of Oslo) talks to us about Matthew 24-25. We discuss:
God's wrath and judgment
the destruction of the temple
the relationship between the destruction of the temple and the death of Jesus
signs of the coming of the Son of Man
the meaning of "the abomination of desolation"
the parable of the talents
the judgment of the sheep and the goats
the meaning of "eternal fire" and "eternal punishment" and the purpose of Matthew's judgment imagery
Relevant Work by Anders Runesson
Divine Wrath and Salvation. Fortress, 2016
Matthew within Judaism: Israel and the Nations in the First Gospel, ed. with Daniel Gurtner. Society of Biblical Literature, 2020.
Other Works Mentioned
John S. Kloppenborg, "The Representation of Violence in Synoptic Parables." Pages 323-51 in Mark and Matthew I: Comparative Readings: Understanding the Earliest Gospels in Their First Century Settings. Ed. Eve-Marie Becker and Anders Runesson. WUNT 271. Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
This Week’s Blurb
In this episode, Anders Runesson Recommends:
Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting (an open access and free academic journal)
A Comparative Handbook to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: Comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature. Brill, 2021.
Next Week
Next week, we finish our journey through Deuteronomy as we talk to Dr. Daniel Block (Wheaton College) about Deuteronomy 31-34.
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