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God's Will and Testament - Inheritance in the Gospel of Matthew and Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
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God's Will and Testament - Inheritance in the Gospel of Matthew and Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
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The Hebrew Bible expresses the Israelite belief that the Israelites
were the people of God uniquely chosen from among all peoples of
the earth, and that this status as elected people guaranteed them
certain privileges not granted to other peoples. One of these
privileges was the right to an inheritance granted by God himself-a
birthright that provided a sense of God's protection and an
awareness of Israel's relationship to God as a special nation.
Details regarding the nature of that inheritance-what it is, who
receives it, and how inheritance is obtained-appear in every strata
and section of the Hebrew Scriptures, and this trajectory continues
across many Second Temple Jewish texts. Yet surprisingly little
scholarly attention has been focused on inheritance as a unique and
crucial concept for Israelite and Jewish religious life and belief.
This paucity of attention to inheritance concepts also extends to
Matthew's Gospel, where inheritance terms appear on four occasions.
With God's Will and Testament, Daniel Daley argues that these
passages play a vital role in Matthew's overall narrative,
especially concerning Matthew's depiction of true discipleship and
relations between Jew and Gentile. Daley further demonstrates that
numerous Jewish traditions antecedent to Matthew's Gospel
influenced the writer's theology and linguistic choices, often in
ways not previously appreciated by interpreters. As a relational
term, inheritance signifies the beneficiary's relationship with
God: because God is a father, he gives an inheritance, and because
he is an eternal father, the inheritance takes on eschatological
connotations to provide a hope for his children into the future.
This concept is a thread that binds Matthew and his community to a
wider Jewish discourse about what it means to be the people of God.
In Matthew's Gospel, this inheritance, this identity as God's
elect, belongs to "the ideal disciple," who commits to Jesus and
his vision for "greater righteousness."
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