The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's messiah (Christ),Jesus,comes to his people but is rejected by them and how,after his resurrection,he sends the disciples to the gentiles instead. Matthew wishes to emphasize that the Jewish tradition should not be lost in a church that was increasingly becoming gentile. The gospel reflects the struggles and conflicts between the evangelist's community and the other Jews,particularly with its sharp criticism of the scribes and Pharisees with the position that through their rejection of Christ,the Kingdom of Heaven has been taken away from them and given instead to the church.
In Christianity,Jesus is the Son of God as chronicled in the Bible's New Testament,and in most Christian denominations he is held to be God the Son,a prosopon (Person) of the Trinity of God. Christians believe him to be the messiah,who was prophesied in the Bible's Old Testament. Through Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection,Christians believe that God offers humans salvation and eternal life,with Jesus's death atoning for all sin.
Ridley Hall is a theological college located on the corner of Sidgwick Avenue and Ridley Hall Road in Cambridge,which trains men and women intending to take Holy Orders as deacon or priest of the Church of England,and members of the laity working with children and young people as lay pioneers and within a pastoral capacity such as lay chaplaincy.
Nicholas Thomas Wright,known as N. T. Wright or Tom Wright,is an English New Testament scholar,Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Durham from 2003 to 2010. He then became research professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2019,when he became a senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford.
Craig L. Blomberg is an American New Testament scholar. He is currently the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the New Testament at Denver Seminary in Colorado where he has been since 1986. His area of academic expertise is the New Testament,including subjects relating to parables,miracles,the historical Jesus,Luke-Acts,John,1 Corinthians,James,the historical trustworthiness of Scripture,financial stewardship,gender roles,the Latter Day Saint movement,hermeneutics,New Testament theology,and exegetical methods. Blomberg has written and edited multiple books.
John William Wenham was a conservative Anglican biblical scholar,who devoted his professional life to academic and pastoral work. Two of his four sons,Gordon Wenham and David Wenham,are also noted theologians.
Richard N. Longenecker was a New Testament scholar. He held teaching positions at Wheaton College and Graduate School;Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (1963-72);Wycliffe College;University of St. Michael’s College;and McMaster Divinity College. His education included B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wheaton College,and a Ph.D. from New College in the University of Edinburgh.
Gordon J. Wenham is a Reformed British Old Testament scholar and writer. He has authored several books about the Bible. Tremper Longman has called him "one of the finest evangelical commentators today."
Ian Howard Marshall was a Scottish New Testament scholar. He was Professor Emeritus of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen,Scotland. He was formerly the chair of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical and Theological Research;he was also president of the British New Testament Society and chair of the Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians. Marshall identified as an Evangelical Methodist. He was the author of numerous publications,including 2005 Gold Medallion Book Award winner New Testament Theology.
Douglas J. Moo is a Reformed New Testament scholar who,after teaching for more than twenty years at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois,served as Blanchard Professor of New Testament at the Wheaton College Graduate School from 2000 until his retirement in 2023. He received his Ph.D. at the University of St. Andrews,in St. Andrews,Scotland.
Leon Lamb Morris was an Australian New Testament scholar and theologian.
Richard John Bauckham is an English Anglican scholar in theology,historical theology and New Testament studies,specialising in New Testament Christology and the Gospel of John. He is a senior scholar at Ridley Hall,Cambridge.
Richard Thomas France (1938–2012),known as R. T. France or Dick France,was a New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric. He was Principal of Wycliffe Hall,Oxford,from 1989 to 1995. He also worked for the London School of Theology.
Graham H. Twelftree is an Australian biblical scholar who currently serves as the Academic Dean of London School of Theology in London,UK.
Graham Stuart Tomlin is a British theologian,author and former Church of England bishop. Since 2022,he has led the Centre for Cultural Witness;he served as Bishop of Kensington,an area bishop in the Diocese of London from 2015 until 2022. From 2007 until 2015,he was dean then principal of St Mellitus College and is now its president.
Christopher J. H. Wright is a missiologist,an Anglican clergyman and an Old Testament scholar. He is currently the International Ministries Director of Langham Partnership International. He was the principal of All Nations Christian College. He is an honorary member of All Souls Church,Langham Place in London,UK.
David John Atkinson is the former Bishop of Thetford.
Craig S. Keener is an American Protestant theologian,Biblical scholar and professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary.
John Nolland is an Australian Anglican priest and Bible scholar. He is Tutor in New Testament at Trinity College,Bristol and also holds the title of Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol.
Michael F. Bird is an Australian New Testament scholar,theologian and Anglican priest.
