Identity Formation and the Gospel of Matthew

A Socio-Narrative Reading

by Tekalign Duguma Negewo

Book cover: Identity Formation and the Gospel of Matthew

Extent: 231 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Classical Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe

Series volume number: 605

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2024)

ISBN: 9783161617881

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $105.00

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Why does the author of the Gospel of Matthew include non-Judean characters in his narrative? Tekalign Duguma Negewo attempts to answer this question based on the assumption that Matthew’s Gospel played an identity-forming role for its community.


Why does the author of the Gospel of Matthew include non-Judean characters in his narrative? Tekalign Duguma Negewo attempts to answer this question based on the assumption that Matthew’s Gospel played an identity-forming role for its community. As a heuristic interpretive tool, he uses the socio-narrative reading method, which merges socio-scientific criticism, narrative criticism, and semiological reading through social identity, narrative, and semiotic theories. Tekalign Duguma Negewo argues that the implied author used the non-Judean characters to form the identity of the ideal readers’ community.

  • By (author) Tekalign Duguma Negewo