Review in: Interpretation
2003 57: 86
Review door: Dorothy
Jean WeaverGevonden op: http://int.sagepub.com/content/57/1/86.2.full.pdf+html
Matthew
8-20: A Commentary
by Ulrich Luz Translated by James E Crouch Hermeneia Fortress, Minneapolis, 2001
607 pp $69 00 (cloth) ISBN 0-8006-6034-X
Luz's COMMENTARY IS A masterful and comprehensive treatment
of the central section of Matthew's gospel. Luz draws on an extensive
bibliography of both ancient and modern sources (pp. xin-xxxvi) and lists the
relevant bibliographical citations at the beginning of each section. Luz
provides his own translation of Matthew (retranslated from German to English
for the Hermeneia volume). He offers painstaking and detailed historical-critical
commentary on the text under the rubrics of "structure,"
"sources," "tradition history and origin,"
"interpretation," and "history of interpretation." And he
concludes each section with a summary reflection focused on the theological
significance of the text for the present day church. Within the current field
of Matthean commentaries, Luz's work is a historical-critical tour deforce.
The most prominent
strength of this massive volume lies in the character and candor of Luz's
theological reflections on the message of Matthew's gospel. Throughout the
commentary, Luz wrestles deeply and honestly with the "big questions"
Matthew places before the present day church: the meaning of
"miracle" (pp. 52-58), the character of the "church" and
its "mission" (pp. 124-28), the significance of "the kingdom of heaven" (pp 295-98), the nature of Christian
"community" (pp 478-83)
Fundamental
to Luz's reflections is the central Matthean motif of "discipleship,"
which Luz defines as "lived and suffered obedience on the way with
Jesus" (p 125) In Luz's view, it is just such radical
"discipleship" that not only represents "the 'essence' of the
church" (p 125) for Matthew but also provides the hermeneutical key to the
understanding of Matthew's gospel as a whole
DOROTHY JEAN WEAVER
EASTERN MENNONITE SEMINARY
HARRISONBURG VIRGINIA
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