The Gospel of the Son of God
An Introduction to Matthew

David Bauer is the right person to write this academic introduction to the Gospel of Matthew. I’ve known for years that Mr. Bauer has followed in the footsteps of Jack Dean Kingsbury. Kingsbury’s writings on Matthew first fascinated me well over a decade ago. In fact, this volume divides the book of......more

I'm a bit torn by this book. I enjoyed parts of it immensely. But I also found much of it frustrating. I think the best part of the book is Bauer's commitment to discuss Matthew by keeping the discussion largely within Matthew itself. Especially when Bauer gets to the theological portions at the end......more

I refer to the audio edition read by Tom Parks. This book is heavily academic, and theological, leaning towards the debate of semantics and language than the actual spiritual nature of the Gospel of Matthew. Because there is so much actual ancient Greek in the text, and not actually pronounced in th......more

An excellent introduction to Matthew's gospel; the culmination of a lifetime of study. While not ignoring historical-critical scholarship, Bauer helpfully takes an inductive approach that focuses on narrative + literary criticism, theological interpretation and the text in it's final form. So much i......more

Short and thoroughly accessible. Lots of interesting takes and Bauer interacts relatively extensively with many significant modern commentaries.......more