Title: Chapter 06: Fill-in-the-blank/Short Answer Questions: The Gospel according to Matthew
Course: Engaging the Christian Scriptures Instructor's Manual

Q: How is Matthew’s Gospel structured?
- around five major sections that alternate between narrative and discourse materials (around five major sections that alternate between narrative and discourse materials)

Q: What is the function of the Moses typology in the Gospel of Matthew?
- to portray Jesus as a “new Moses,” the authoritative prophet-teacher who delivers his people and instructs them in the way of righteousness (to portray Jesus as a “new Moses,” the authoritative prophet-teacher who delivers his people and instructs them in the way of righteousness)

Q: What are two meanings of the term “righteousness”?
- humans doing what is right in relation to God’s covenant requirements and God’s saving activity (humans doing what is right in relation to God’s covenant requirements and God’s saving activity)

Q: List the two aspects of the Matthean passion narrative that make it distinct from those in the other Gospels.
- Matthew includes an account of Judas’s death to highlight the possibility of restoration and to introduce the theme of responsibility for Jesus’s innocent blood, and Matthew includes a description of a powerful earthquake and resurrections after Jesus’s death to mark Jesus’s death and resurrection as the apocalyptic act of God that begins the end-time intervention of God (Matthew includes an account of Judas’s death to highlight the possibility of restoration and to introduce the theme of responsibility for Jesus’s innocent blood, and Matthew includes a description of a powerful earthquake and resurrections after Jesus’s death to mark Jesus’s death and resurrection as the apocalyptic act of God that begins the end-time intervention of God)

Q: How do the parables function in Matthew’s Gospel?
- they explain why Jesus and his proclamation of the kingdom of heaven are met with diverse responses, particularly negative ones (they explain why Jesus and his proclamation of the kingdom of heaven are met with diverse responses, particularly negative ones)