The Sheep and the Goats

Chad Venters

doi:10.5771/9781978708082

Summary

Chad Venters argues that Psalm 80 (Psalm 79 LXX) is an important source for the composition of Matthew 25:31–46. Psalm 80 provides a religio-political background for understanding the devastation facing Israel at the hands of the Romans. Viewing Psalm 80 as a source for Matthew 25:31–46 accounts for the diversity of images found in the Sheep and the Goats and provides further insight into the meaning of the passage. Venters’s reading of the Sheep and the Goats contends that the story is not focused on world-ending judgment but a cataclysmic shift in which Yahweh’s vineyard has been taken from Israel and given to the church and the nations.

This book augments the larger corpus of Matthean studies, contributing to the less prominent research of Psalm 80 as an influential text for multiple passages in the New Testament and other first-century literature. Various studies have proposed the prevalence of Psalm 80 through scriptural “echoes” and “allusions” in the New Testament. Venters seeks to solidify these hypotheses in favor of Psalm 80 as an important background text for the New Testament Gospels.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0807-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0808-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 224
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
1. 1. Pre-70 View External Evidence No access
  2. Pre-70 Internal Evidence No access
  3. Post-70 External Evidence No access
  4. Post-70 Internal Evidence No access
  5. Evaluation No access
2. Notes No access
1. The Road to Conflict No access
2. The Horrors of the War No access
3. Response to National Tragedy No access
4. Notes No access
1. Daniel No access
2. 4 Ezra No access
3. 2 Baruch No access
4. Revelation No access
5. Defining the Apocalyptic and the Eschatological No access
6. World-Ending Eschatology and Cataclysmic Eschatology No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. The Son of Man beyond Daniel No access
2. Notes No access
1. 1. Israel Theory No access
  2. Judah Theory No access
  3. Pre-Divided Monarchy Theory No access
  4. Evaluation No access
2. 1. Evaluation No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. Psalm 80 in 2 Baruch No access
  2. Evaluation No access
  3. Psalm 80 in the Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum No access
  4. Evaluation No access
2. Notes No access
1. Mark 14:625 No access
2. The Parable of the Wicked Tenants No access
3. John 15:1–832 No access
4. Evaluation No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Zechariah 14 No access
  2. Ezekiel 34 No access
  3. Similitudes of Enoch 62 No access
2. 1. Textual Relationship No access
3. Notes No access
1. 1. The Problem with the Sheep No access
2. Notes No access
1. This Wicked Generation No access
2. The Fig Tree (21:18–22) No access
3. The Parable of the Two Sons (21:28–32) No access
4. The Wicked Tenants (21:33–41) No access
5. The Parable of the Marriage Feast (22:1–14) No access
6. 1. The Abomination of Desolation No access
7. Notes No access
1. Paul’s Parousia No access
2. The Coming Son of Man and the Parousia No access
3. “Left Behind” Language No access
4. Notes No access
1. The σῦς and the ἔριφος No access
2. The Criteria of Judgment and the Least No access
3. A Tale of Two Judges No access
4. Notes No access
1. Rethinking the Sheep and the Goats No access
2. The Historical Jesus No access
3. Israel’s Future No access
4. Israel and the Church No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Biblical Texts No access
  2. Other Jewish, Canaanite, and Classical Texts No access
2. 1. Lexicons and Dictionary Articles No access
  2. Books and Articles No access
Index of Subjects No access Pages 219 - 222
About the Author No access Pages 223 - 224