Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Century of Research on the Matthean Community -- 2.1. The Matthean Community as a School -- 2.2. Matthew as Liturgist -- 2.3. The Matthean Community in Dialogue/Controversy with Judaism/Jewish Christianity -- 2.4. The Matthean Community in a Gentile Environment -- 2.5. The Matthean Community as Prophets and Wandering Charismatics -- 2.6. The Gospel of Matthew in Syrian Antioch -- 2.7. A Place of Origin other than Syrian Antioch -- 2.8. Sociological Approaches to the Matthean Community -- 2.9. A Mixture of Trustworthy and Precarious Foundations: Reflections on Previous Research on the Matthean Community -- Chapter 3. Towards a Solution of the Methodological Challenges Facing Research on the Matthean Community -- 3.1. Are the Methodological Difficulties so Great that it is Impossible to Reconstruct the Matthean Community? -- 3.2. Orality and the GospelTraditions -- 3.3. Precarious Foundation 2: The Two Source Hypothesis -- 3.4. Is a Theory Independent Methodology Possible? -- 3.5. Introducing the Basic Research Tool: The Detection and Evaluation of the Significance of Patterns Discovered by Synoptic Comparison -- 3.6. Material Closely Parallel to Material in Other Gospels -- 3.7. The Material Unique to Matthew -- 3.8. Notable Absences in the Matthean Sondergut -- 3.9. Distinctive Matthean Emphases -- 3.10. How Much Does the Work of One Man Represent the Views of a Community? -- 3.11. The Methodology Adopted -- Chapter 4. Matthew 18 as Evidence of Well defined Community Boundaries -- 4.1. Community Discipline as Envisaged in Matt 18 -- 4.2. Matt 18 and the Matthean Community -- 4.3. Other Indications of Boundaries to the Community -- Chapter 5. The Kingdom of Heaven and the Matthean Community -- 5.1. Protests against linking the Kingdom of Heaven with the Church.

5.2. Matt 13 :24- 30, 36- 43: The Parable of the Weeds among the Wheat -- 5.3. Matt 13 :47- 50: The Parable of the Net -- 5.4. Matt 21 : 43 -- 5.5. The Matthean Concept of Church -- 5.6. What the Concept of Church in Matthew Reveals about the Matthean Community -- Chapter 6. Leadership & Structure of the Matthean Community -- 6.1. The Emergence of Informal Roles within the Matthean Community -- 6.2. Peter -- 6.3. Implications for the Structure of the Community -- Chapter 7. Community Standards of Behaviour and Its Regulation -- 7.1. Matt 5 : 17- 48 and the Permanence of the Law -- 7.2. Righteousness in Matthew as Proper Conduct before God -- 7.3. Grace and the Motivation for a Christian to Keep the Law in Matthew -- 7.4. Specific Behavioural Outcomes of the Matthean Theology of Law: Example 1 - The Sabbath -- 7.5. Specific Behavioural Outcomes of the Matthean Theology of Law: Example 2 - Clean and Unclean in Matt 15 : 1- 20 and the Overthrow of the Oral Law -- 7.6. Specific Behavioural Outcomes of the Matthean Theology of Law: Example 3 - Divorce -- 7.7. Other Practical Injunctions in the Matthean Sondergut -- 7.8. The Matthean Theology of Law -- 7.9. Implications for the Matthean Community -- Chapter 8. The Matthean Community and Judaism -- 8.1. The Issue of Mission -- 8.2. The Gentiles in Matthew -- 8.3. The Jewish Leaders -- 8.4. Issues of Particular Interest to Jews -- 8.5. The Matthean Community and Judaism -- Chapter 9. The Matthean Community and the End of the Age -- 9.1. A Community under the Threat of Impending Judgment -- 9.2. Response to the Delay of Parousia -- 9.3. Implications for the Matthean Community A: The Passage of Time -- 9.4. Implications for the Matthean Community B: Community Boundaries and Self Definition -- Chapter 10. A Profile of the Matthean Community and its Place in Early Christianity.

10.1. A Brief Recapitulation of the Principal Results of Earlier Chapters -- 10.2. The Matthean Community and Judaism -- 10.3. The Sectarian Nature of the Matthean Community -- 10.4. The Matthean Community in its Wider Christian Context -- 10.5. The Limitations Discovered to be Inherent in any Investigation of the Matthean Community -- 10.6. Mainstream or Marginal: The Matthean Community in First Century Christianity -- Abbreviations of Journals and Book Series -- Works Cited -- Index.