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Book Review: Epworth Commentaries. Published under the general editorship of Ivor Jones. Epworth Press, Petersborough. Paperback. Price Stg £9.95

Turning to the question of the first Gospel’s treatment of the Jews, Hagner is right in reminding us that the Christian Gospels did not enjoy a monopoly of bitter polemic: one can find equally biting criticism between rabbinical schools as one can between Matthew’s Christians and their Jewish neighbours. He cautions (rightly I think) against assuming that the break between Christians and Jews had taken place in a decisive and clear-cut fashion even by the 80s. Chapter 23 is the locus classicus for any study of Matthew’s purported anti-Judaism. Much Gospel study has shifted responsibility for the anti-pharisaism of these statements from Jesus to later redactional stages in the Gospel’s growth in its attempts to safeguard the authentic Jewishness of Jesus. Hagner yields little to such political correctness. The woes addressed to the scribes and pharisees come ’from the mouth of