Essays on the Sermon on the Mount

A diligent and carefully argued exercise in the historico-critical method, Hans Dieter Betz' Essays present the Sermon on the Mount (SM) as a pre-Matthean composition coming from a Jewish-Christian community engaged in the polemical process of constructing an identity vis-à-vis mainstream Jewish (Pharisaic) groups on the one hand and emerging Gentile Christianity on the other. Hans Dieter Betz ; Translations By L.l. Welborn. Includes Indexes.