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| 1. | Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Matthew Sacra Pagina Vol 1 Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1991), 5. |
| 2. | Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1977), 137. |
| 3. | James S. McLaren, Turbulent times?: Josephus and scholarship on Judaea in the first century CE (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998). |
| 4. | Harrington, The Gospel of Matthew, 15. |
| 5. | Lee I. Levine. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity: Conflict or Confluence? (Peabody, Massachusetts: University, 1988), 46. |
| 6. | Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983) 1. |
| 7. | Snodgrass Klyne. “Matthew’s Understanding of the Law.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 96. (Richmond Va.: Union theological Seminary, 1992). |
| 8. | Anonymous. “The Jews in the New Testament: The Gospel According to Matthew.” Scripture in Church 38, no. 149 (Dublin: Dominican Publications, 2008),125 |
| 9. | Harrington, The Gospel of Matthew, 15-16. |
| 10 | cf. Martin Hengel, Judaism and Hellenism, Translated by John Bowden (London, SCM Press Ltd, 1981), 100. |
| 11. | Jerome H. Neyrey, Paul in Other Words: A Cultural Reading of His Letters (Westminister: John Knox Press, 1990), 46. |
| 12. | Meeks, The First Urban Christians, 50. |
| 13. | Hengel, Judaism and Hellenism, 114. |
| 14. | Alexander John Shaia, Heart and Mind: The Four Gospel Journey for Radical Transformation (Melbourne: Mosaic Press, 2013), Ch. 4. |