Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel

Episode 34: The Great Scribal Reversal, Matthew 13:44-58

January 16, 2021 Bert Newton
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel
Episode 34: The Great Scribal Reversal, Matthew 13:44-58
Show Notes

This episode concludes a chapter in which Jesus speaks in riddles, revealing the hidden things, the wonderful secrets of the new society. Again, nothing is as it seems. Jesus attempts a great scribal reversal, making the peasants scribes, and leaving the scribal class on the outside, lacking understanding. This reversal is rejected...but wait...nothing is as it seems.