The following videos introduce the background and themes of the Gospel of Matthew. Use the links to the right to access pdf files of the slides shown in class. Two formats are available: 1 slide per page and three slides per page.
The videos often have a bit more information, and a few more slides, than I show in our class or include in the slide files above. That's because they were made for classes in the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries at Santa Clara University. At the bottom of the page, I provide links to the video pages for those courses, in case you're interested in learning more about the New Testament.
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A Developing Tradition: Matthew & Earlier Writings
This video describes the development of the gospel tradition, focusing on the earlier sources that Matthew incorporated, as well as those he resists (Paul).
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The Synoptic Problem and its Solution
This video focuses on the "synoptic problem"— namely, how to account for the literary relationship of the first three gospels. Three typical "cases" of evidence from these three gospels are offered, and then the consensus view of the relationship, the Two Source Hypothesis, is introduced and explained.
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Matthew's Infancy Narrative
This video introduces infancy narratives, and then approaches our earliest example, Matthew's infancy narrative, as a kind of overture to the major themes of Matthew's gospel. We will use narrative criticism to identify motifs and allusions that Matthew repeats across the genealogy and five episodes of this opening narrative, so that we are primed to notice them as we continue reading the gospel.
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The Narrative Structure of Matthew's Gospel
This video surveys the structure of the entire gospel of Matthew, with a special focus on the five narrative blocks in the body of the work: how they are structured, how they advance the plot, and what they tell us about Matthew's themes or interests.
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Narrative & Redactional Themes in Matthew
This video summarizes Carter's identification of the kernels and satellites in Matthew's plot. Then, drawing from our narrative critical and redaction critical work, it identifies themes that both methods expose.
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For additional videos about the gospels, see the "Lecture Videos" pages associated with my courses at Santa Clara University on The Synoptic Gospels and The New Testament.
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