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The composition aind structure of the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew
Josip Vrana
Abstract
The synoptic Gospels according to Matthew, Mark and Luke are closely
related. On approximately 640 places texts (somewhere longer and
somewhere shorter) correspond in all three gospels or only in two,
usually when the Gospel according to Mark has been shortened. This
correspondence implies that all three gospels have the same origan
which I call the proto-Gospel. Claude Tresmontant has proved that
thils original Gospel was written in Hebrew. Only the Gospels according
to Mark and Luke have the same order of the texts while in the Gospel
according to Matthew this order has been changed so that approximately 2/3 of the text (excluding the Passion), which appear in different places in Matthew and Luke, have been united into six sermons, the first being the Sermon on the Mount which contains 26 narratives. For his Sermon on the Mount Matthew had only one protograph. This can be concluded from the fact that two scenes reour: they occur in the Sermon on the Mount and in a later text. This implies that the Greek Gospel according to Matthew is not the proto-Gospel. Matthew is either only the author of the protograph, i. e. the proto-Gospel and the revised text has kept häis name, or he is only the author of the revised text.
Keywords
Sermon on the Mount; Gospel of Matthew
Hrčak ID:
86009
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Publication date:
15.6.1987.
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