Congratulations to Anders Runesson on winning the 2017 F. W. Beare Award from the Candian Society of Biblical Studies for his new book Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel! You can read the information on the award here. I've just started this book and am really enjoying it thus far. Prof Runesson's main argument thus far is that Matthew's Gospel should properly be read as a Jewish text, not a "Christian" one. As part of that, he also emphasizes an approach to Matthew's inception history rather than its reception history of Christian interpretation. He's also offering some good methodological observations along the way. I'll pass along one that obviously resonates with me:"History, academically defined, is, then, best understood as a conversation between the past and the present" (xxii).
Congrats again, Prof Runesson. I'll be giving some more thoughts on this book in due course.
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