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For the Jewish leaders as a corporate character in Matthew’s plot, see Jack Dean Kingsbury, Matthew as Story (Philadelphia: Fortress, 2nd edition, 1988), pp. 17–23.

Seth Schwartz, Josephus and Judean Politics, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 18 (Leiden: Brill, 1990). Schwartz argues that changes in Josephus’s attitudes reflect the struggle for political power in Palestine and Roman attitudes among the Jewish leadership toward various social groups in the latter third of the first century.

See Shaye J.D. Cohen, “The Place of the Rabbi in Jewish Society of the Second Century,” in Lee I. Levine, ed., The Galilee in Late Antiquity (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary; Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992), pp. 157–173; and Lee I. Levine, “The Sages and the Synagogue in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of the Galilee,” in The Galilee in Late Antiquity, pp. 201–222.

For the complete case for this position, see Anthony J. Saldarini, Matthew’s Christian-Jewish Community (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994).

Graham N. Stanton, A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew (Edinburgh: Clark, 1992).

Luke T. Johnson, “The New Testament’s Anti-Jewish Slander and the Conventions of Ancient Polemic,” Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989), pp. 419–441. Johnson contextualizes the polemics within the stereotyped and accepted literary attacks found in Greco-Roman philosophers and Hellenistic Jewish writers.

Freedman, Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy, p. 8.

Bronstein and Friedlander, The Five Scrolls, pp. 250–251.

Herbert Bronstein and Albert H. Friedlander, trans., The Five Scrolls (New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1984).

Ronald Knox, The Old Testament, vol. 2 (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1950).