Matthew's Narrative Web

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Matthew's Narrative Web is written by Janice Capel Anderson and published by A&C Black. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1850754500 (ISBN 10) and 9781850754503 (ISBN 13).

The Gospel of Matthew contains many repeated phrases and double stories. Scholars have usually used this as evidence to support various source theories. Taking a different approach, this book uses narrative and reader-response criticisms to explore the role verbal repetition plays in the rhetoric, characterization, and plot of the Gospel. The importance of variation, context, and the temporal dimension of narrative is highlighted. A concluding chapter treats two literary studies of repetition in modern narrative and the relation of narrative and reader-response criticisms to aural reception of the Gospels in the first century.