{"title":"The Righteous Lawgiver","authors":"M. Litwa","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd867c.12","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter compares Matthew’s depiction of Jesus as a lawgiver with portrayals of Greco-Roman and Jewish lawgivers in contemporary mythic historiography. Special attention is given to Moses, Numa, and Lycurgus of Sparta.","PeriodicalId":115187,"journal":{"name":"How the Gospels Became History","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"How the Gospels Became History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd867c.12","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter compares Matthew’s depiction of Jesus as a lawgiver with portrayals of Greco-Roman and Jewish lawgivers in contemporary mythic historiography. Special attention is given to Moses, Numa, and Lycurgus of Sparta.