Matthew's Emmanuel: Divine Presence and God's People in the First Gospel
That Matthew uniquely highlights Jesus as 'Emmanuel' is common knowledge among Gospel commentators. Almost wholly overlooked, however, are the deeper implications of this 'presence motif' for the enterprise of Matthean christology, as well as its centripetal force on readers of the First Gospel. Matthew's Emmanuel employs the lenses of both narrative and historical criticism to produce the first serious monograph in English on the subject of divine presence in Matthew. After giving primacy to...
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Matthew uniquely highlights Jesus as 'Emmanuel', and Dr Kupp examines the implications of this 'presence' motif.
1. Introduction; 2. Matthew's narrative art; 3. Reading Matthew's story of divine presence; 4. Paradigms of presence in the Old Testament; 5. 'I am with you': the Old Testament tradition of the saying; 6. Matthew 1: The birth of the 'God-with-us' Messiah; 7. Matthew 18.1-20: The presence of Jesus and his ecclesia; 8. Matthew 28.16-20: The presence of the risen Jesus; 9. Jesus's presence and Matthew's Christology; 10. Conclusion.
