Saldarini characterizes the Qumran community, the Jesus movement and the followers of Matthew as contemporary reform groups within the broad categories of Jews and Christians. He theorizes that Matthew would have been aware of the Qumran community's beliefs (just as we are aware of various religious beliefs today) and notes similarities between the Matthean community, Qumran and Matthew's gospel.
Anthony J. Saldarini is a professor in the Department of Theology at Boston College. His many publications focus on Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism and on the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. He is the author of Matthew's Christian-Jewish Community (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and an associate editor of the Macmillan Dictionary of Biblical Judaism (1995). His current research is on Jewish-Christian relations in the second and third centuries. His article "Babatha's Story" is featured in the March/April 1998 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.
BAS 1999, VHS, 55 minutes. |
