New Testament— Matthew

• John Burnett, MA, Notes on Matthew. Commentary (about 10 pages per chapter) on Matthew's gospel, in installments.
  
  Mt 1.1-2.23 Burnett commentary.pdf (updated 14 sep 2013)
  Mt 3.1-4.16 Burnett commentary.pdf (updated 18 sep 2013)
  Mt 4.23-8.1 Burnett, The Teaching on the Mountain.pdf (updated 8 nov 2014)
  Mt 8.1-9.36 Burnett, Where Is Jesus Coming From? (Matthew's account of Jesus' authority) (updated 15 jan 2015)
  
  (more to be added as I complete the project; and these will eventually be updated as well).
  
  Some additional material for the motivated:
  
• On Matthew's plot: JD Kingsbury, "The Plot of Matthew's Story", Interpretation 46 (Oct 1992), 347-356. Just what the title says, this is an important and handy overview of Matthew's story as a whole, and a good map to have in mind as you read.
• Mt 1.23, 4.15-16: Warren Carter, "Evoking Isaiah: Matthean Soteriology and an Intertextual Reading of Isaiah 7-9 and Matthew 1.23 and 4.15-16", JBL 119/3 (2000) 503-520.
• Mt 5.21–7.12: Glen H Stassen, "The Fourteen Triads of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5.21–7.12)" (Journal of Biblical Literature 122/2 (2003) 267-308). This one nails it.
• Mt 8.5-13: Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. and Tat-Siong Benny Liew, "Mistaken Identities but Model Faith: Rereading the Centurion, the Chap, and the Christ in Matthew 8:5-13" (Journal of Biblical LIterature 123/3 (2004) 467-494). Criticism of its main thesis in this article. Still, that the centurion's view of Jesus' authority in Mt 8.9 and the Pharisees' view of it in 9.32-34 are equivalent, seems uncontrovertible.
• Mt 8.12 etc: Zoltan L. Erdey and Kevin G. Smith, 'The Function of “Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth” in Matthew's Gospel' (Acta Theologica 32/1 (2012): 26-45): Six times, Matthew has Jesus pronouncing judgment with the idiom “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (8.12; 13.42; 13.50; 22.13; 24.51; 25.30). Each time, the phrase underscores a different component of the theme of judgment, which thus takes on increasing force and potency. Matthew also uses it to tie together the several passages where it occurs, and thus his overall end-times theology.
• Mt 11.2–16.20: Jeannine K. Brown, "The Rhetoric of Hearing: The Use of the Isaianic Hearing Motif in Matthew 11.2–16.20", from Daniel M. Gurtner and John Nolland, Built Upon the Rock: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2008) pp. 248-269.
• Mt 13.53-16.20: Donald J Verseput, "The Faith of the Reader and the Narrative of Matthew 13.53-16.20" (JSNT 46 (1992) 3-24). The narrative framework in which the individual pericope is located inevitably influences its meaning. In Mt 13.53-16.20, the Evangelist seeks to provide an antidote to the malady of ‘little faith’ or rather, distrust. Relentlessly exploiting the shortcoming of the disciples to make his point, Matthew endeavors to show his audience the authority and inexhaustible power of Jesus, the Messiah and son of the living God.