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The Influence Of The Gospel Of Matthew

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As a core scripture of the biggest world religion, the Gospel of Matthew has been, and still is, a powerful tool of transformations of identity and place. The rhetoric of the Gospel promotes rejection of former identity and transformation into a new Jesus-identity (16:24–25), which is to be shared in every possible place (28:18–20). In two millennia, the ideology of a small Galilean Jesus-movement has influenced on identities of billions of people all around the world. Also in the Middle East and North Africa, Christian and Christian-related (especially Judaism and Islam) ideologies have had strong influence in the people and places of the past and the present. In a global perspective, the popularity of the Gospel of Matthew shows no signs
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