New Book – Matthew: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary

EAST warmly congratulates Dr Kwa Kiem Kiok, our Resident Faculty, on the recent publication of Matthew: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Asia Bible Commentary Series) which she co-authors with Dr Samson Liao Uytanlet, a faculty member of the Biblical Seminary of the Philippines .

Dr Craig S. Keener, Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary, endorses the work as it “attends to literary dimensions of this Gospel as well as displaying sensitivity to, and competence in, both the ancient setting of Matthew’s Gospel and modern Asian contexts … [and] properly highlights relevant issues of honor, shame, kinship, colonial contexts, and so forth and provides insights on Matthew’s Gospel from which readers in many cultures, including Western ones, will learn much. All this in a work that is well-laid out and very understandably written!”