Endnote 11 – Understanding Matthew’s Vitriol

For a review of positions, see Graham Stanton, “The Origin and Purpose of Matthew’s Gospel: Matthean Scholarship from 1945–1980,” in Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt II.25.3, ed. H. Temporini and W. Hasse (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1985); and W.D. Davies and Dale C. Allison, The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, vol. 1, International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh: Clark, 1988), pp. 138–147. Galilee is supported by J. Andrew Overman (Matthew’s Gospel, p. 159) and Eduard Schweizer (“Matthew’s Church,” in The Interpretation of Matthew, ed. Graham Stanton [Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983], pp. 129–130).