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Matthew 15:10-28

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bullet Reading the Text:
bullet NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
bullet The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
bullet The Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
bullet The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition & sermons.
bullet Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
bulletThe Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
bullet"Good and Evil," Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit.
bullet At Mahlon H. Smith's (Rutgers University) Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus:
bullet Beggar At A Banquet (Babylonian Talmud, Berakoth 31b)
bulletComparative texts about Spirit Possession and Exorcism, and comparative primary texts about Purity and Social Relations, from Philo, Josephus, Lucian, Pseudepigrapha, Babylonian Talmud, Midrash, Philostratus.
bulletComparative texts about Pharisees & Sadducees from Josephus, Tosefta, Mishnah & Babylonian Talmud.
bullet"Of David's Lineage," "What Goes In," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
bullet Chapter XI, The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians, Ignatius of Antioch (c. 110). (Longer Version - 4th cent interpolation)
bullet XX.35-38, 41, 45-46, 49-55, 57; Tatian's Diatessaron (c. 150-160).
bullet Chapter VI, On Prayer Tertullian (c. 199)
bullet I.3, II.1, II.6, Paedagogus, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
bullet II.11, Stromata, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
bullet Chapter III, Chapter VIII, Chapter XIV, The Prescription of Heretics, Tertullian (c. 200)
bullet IV.7, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 210)
bullet VII.XXXIII, VIII.XXIX, Against Celsus, Origen. (c.246)
bullet XI.12-17, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247)
bullet On the Unity of the Church, Cyprian of Carthage (c. 250)
bullet Epistle XXXIX -- Epistle XLVIII -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 251)
bullet Epistle LXXII -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 256)
bulletHomilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew, St. Chrysostom (c. 380):
bullet Homily LII - Matthew 15:21, 22
bullet Chapter IX, Historia Calamitatusm: The Story of My Misfortunes, Pierre Abélard / Peter Abelard, c. 1140.
bulletFrom the Catena Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas.
bullet From the Geneva Notes.
bullet"In that Christ sometimes shuts his ears, as it were, to the prayers of his saints, he does it for his glory, and our profit."
bullet From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
bullet"Nothing will last in the soul but the regenerating graces of the Holy Spirit; and nothing should be admitted into the church but what is from above."
bullet From Wesley's Notes.
bullet"Thy faith - Thy reliance on the power and goodness of God."
bullet From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
bullet"...nothing which enters from without can really defile us; and that only the evil that is in the heart, that is allowed to stir there, to rise up in thought and affection, and to flow forth in voluntary action, really defiles a man!"
bullet From The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
bullet"We can see how greatness of faith is manifested: (1) She came to Christ under difficulties. (2) She persevered when her prayer seemed to be denied. (3) She still pleaded when obstacles were presented. (4) She waited at the feet of the Lord until he had mercy. Such faith always prevails."
bullet "The Perserverance of Faith; Matthew 15:28," Charles H. Spurgeon, 1892.
bullet"...faith alone can keep a soul seeking after Christ under discouragement."
bullet Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
bullet "Yelping Puppies, The Canaanite Woman," Gospel Analysis, Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington. Detailed background and exegesis.
bullet"It is the Jewish gospel of Matthew that underscores this woman was a Canaanite which meant that she was symbolic of abominable and detestable religious practices."
bullet "Overlooked and Under-Considered," Rev. Todd Weir, bloomingcactus.
bullet"This text prepares us to come to the communion table.  How do you come to this table?  Do you come as a confident insider like the disciples and simply assume God's favor?  Or do you come wondering where you stand with God, longing for the divine presence, yet feeling like an outsider? "
bullet Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
bullet Dylan's Lectionary Blog, Proper 15. Biblical Scholar Sarah Dylan Breuer looks at readings for the coming Sunday in the lectionary of the Episcopal Church.
bullet"She challenged him, and by answering, Jesus made her his equal in the eyes of the crowd. But then, after acknowledging that she is not an Israelite, Jesus engages her in more argument ..."
bullet "First Thoughts on Year A Gospel Passages in the Lectionary: Pentecost 13" William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia, 2002.
bullet"What extraordinary power the woman exercises - over Jesus! But then Jesus came to enable us to learn from others and discern God's call and not to assume we can never learn or that we know it all."
bullet Matthew in the Margins, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western Australia.
bullet "Igniting the Imagination of Jesus," Mary Hinkle, Pilgrim Preaching.
bullet"I have thought that fear makes it impossible to imagine things. 'Perfect fear casts out all imagination,' I have thought. But you were afraid—you must have been afraid of the demon and of your daughter’s suffering. You could be afraid and see a new thing—healing—at the same time. You saw it and you showed it to Jesus and the rest of us."
bulletExegetical Notes by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks Christian Resources.
bullet"She didn't move a mountain. She probably had never been to church in her life. She certainly had never read the Bible. What's so great about her faith?"
bullet Exegesis, Proper 15A, by Richard Donovan at lectionary.org.
bullet"In the Incarnation, he took upon himself the human tensions with which we all struggle.  Now he must choose one kind of good while turning his back on another.  That is the problem with being human.  We can't have it all!"
bullet Sermon Preparation Thoughts and Questions by Wesley White, 2005.
bullet"Even crumbs of goodness are available to go in the mouths of dogs. Will we not diligently be about the business of seeing goodness, food, go into the mouths of all as well as seeing evil, poverty, kept from the mouths of all?!"
bullet "A Woman's Faith," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
bullet Wellspring of the Gospel, Ordinary 20A, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
bullet "Prejudice and Faith," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's Story, Family Activity, Support Materials.
bullet"Are you at ease in today's multi-cultural climate? Or, do you find your dealings with people of other cultures difficult? (Be honest!)"
bullet "True Grit," John Ortberg, The Christian Century, 2003.
bullet"The story of this woman shows what we are all so slow to grasp: that the most desirable society in the cosmos turns out to be the humblest. Father, Son and Spirit are determined that the circle of love they share from all eternity should be ceaselessly, shamelessly inclusive. None are left out except those who refuse to enter."
bullet "Feed my Dogs," Garret Keizer. Commentary from The Christian Century, August, 1999. At Religion Online.
bullet"If the Canaanite woman could bring about repentance (a turning) in Jesus himself, what stones we are if she does not convert us too."
bullet "Crumbs for Dogs," analysis by Shane Pierce in Sabbatheology by the Crossings Community of St Louis, Missouri.
bullet"...this great faith makes of the woman not a problem presence, but a healing presence. Her past history and present dilemmas are recast as signs of promise."
bullet "Even the Dogs," Jerry Goebel, One Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study and activities.
bullet"Isn’t it strange how quickly the disciples became 'the oppressor' when among foreigners? Isn’t it frightening how quickly they became self-righteous? But, isn’t it wondrous how Jesus takes all of these horrible factors—prejudice and pride—and turns them into heavenly glory?"
bullet Reflection on Matthew 15:21-21, Rev. Wanda Copeland. At Environmental Reflections, Lectionary Year A, Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, Environmental Stewardship Commission.
bullet"It is not enough to just ask Jesus to come to us and help fix our brokenness.  We are then called to walk as he did and share our healing with others as he did."
bullet"Her Feisty Trust," analysis and reflection by Ed Schroeder, in Sabbatheology by The Crossing Community of St Louis, Missouri.
bullet"She goes home herself as God's healed daughter with Jesus' own commendations that she's an insider--with him, and therefore with God as well. Daily life options--living as God's found daughter with a Jesus-connection that says I please him and please God too. Even if this is only "crumbs," some crumbs! And she can keep on eating them in the joys and sorrows that may criss-cross her daily life from here to eternity."
bullet "The Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7:25-30/Matthew 15:21-28," James Still, at Internet Infidels.
bullet"We do know that first-century Jews (the 'children' in this passage) referred to the pagans as dogs because of their failure to observe ritual purity laws (Downing, 1992: 137)."
bullet"Scraps from the Table," Kenneth W. Collins, at Ken Collins' Web Site.
bullet"We have a lot to learn from the Canaanite woman’s style of prayer."
bulletArticles & Background:
bullet "Clean and Unclean," "Feeding the Dogs," wikipedia.
bullet "Jesus, Healer of the Canaanite Woman's Daughter in Matthew's Gospel: A Social-Scientific Inquiry," Stuart L. Love, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2002.
bullet"The purpose of this study is to assess the historicity of the healing story of the Canaanite woman's daughter in the Gospel of Matthew (15:21-28) primarily by means of a cross-cultural anthropological analysis."
bullet "Women and Conflict," Pamela Cooper-White at The Living Pulpit.
bullet"Women often avoid disagreement in order to preserve relationship, but often at the expense of their own truth and sometimes their safety as well."
bullet "Spirit, Mercy, and the Other," Judith Gundry-Volf, Theology Today, 1995.
bullet"This triumph is portrayed as coming about through a Gentile woman's bold and persuasive insistence that God's mercy is not doled out along ethnic, gender, or socio-cultural lines."
bullet "Jesus and Women in Matthew," Jane Kopas, University of Scranton. Theology Today, 1990.
bullet"The Canaanite woman who seeks a cure for her daughter is not put off by the apparent rebuff Of Jesus (15:21-28). Since she is not only a foreigner but also a woman, the nature of their dialogue is remarkable…. It is not only the gentiles but mothers and daughters and other marginalized people or outsiders who get a special hearing from Jesus, Not only do they receive a special hearing, but they seem to hear and see the possibilities in his mission beyond what others see."
bullet"Meals, Food and Tablefellowship." Jerome H. Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation, 159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
bullet"How can readers understand the particular ceremony of meals and table fellowship? Why are meals so important as symbols of broader social relationships? How can we peer below the surface and grasp the social dynamics encoded in meals and commensality, what anthropologists call "the language of meals"?"
bullet"Miracles, In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healings," Jerome H. Neyrey, University of Notre Dame, 1995.
bullet"...we should attend to the institution in which the healing takes place, either kinship or politics. What roles does the family have in an illness? How are they socially and economically affected? What role do they play in the seeking of a cure? What costs do they pay or debts to they incur? What if the healing occurs in the political realm, even if this is a healing shrine such as the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus? Healings, moreover, might have important political implications, for "prophets" arose, echoing themes of liberation and freedom. The political significance of the account of the healing by the Jewish Eleazar before the emperor Vespasian and his retinue should not be discounted (Josephus. Ant. 8.45-48)."
bullet"Clean/Unclean, Pure/Polluted and Holy/Profane," Jerome H. Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation, 80-104. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
bullet"The specific use of the two anthropological models of (a) "clean" and "unclean" and (2) body symbolism can equip a reader to understand a wide but interconnected series of issues, such as dietary concerns (Acts 10-11), mission to "unclean" people (Mark 5; Acts 8), sexual morals (1 Thess 4:1-9), and hand washings (Mark 7). A reader knowing this material has a firm basis for sympathetically understanding the conflicts between Jesus and Pharisees which run through the gospel stories."
bullet "Did Jesus Oppose Purity Laws?" Paula Fredriksen, Boston University, Bible Review, 1995.
bullet"On the Dignity and Vocation of Women," Pope John Paul II, September, 1988.
bullet"And finally, there is the Canaanite woman, whom Christ extols for her faith, her humility and for that greatness of spirit of which only a mother's heart is capable. 'O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.'"
bulletArticles in ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are subscribed and logged in to ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
bulletBurkill, T.A., "The Historical Development of the Story of the Syrophoenician Woman," Novum Testamentum, 1967.
bulletDerrett, J., Duncan, "Law in the New Testament: The Syro-Phoenician Woman and the Centurion of Capernaum," Novum Testamentum, 1973.
bulletDube, Musa W., "Consuming a Colonial Cultural Bomb: Translating Badimo into 'Demons' in the Setswana Bible (Matthew 8.28-34; 15.22; 10.8)," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1999.
bulletGundry-Volf, Judith, "Spirit, Mercy, and the Other," Theology Today, 1995.
bulletHaughey, John C., S.J., "There's No 'Them' There," The Living Pulpit, 2004.
bulletPerkinson, Jim, "A Canaanitic Word in the Logos of Christ; or The Difference the Syro-Phoenician Woman Makes to Jesus," Semeia, 1996.
bulletScherer, Paul E., "A Gauntlet with a Gift in It: From Text to Sermon on Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark 7:24-30," Interpretation, 1966.
bulletScott, J. Julius, Jr., "Gentiles and the Ministry of Jesus: Further Observations on Matthew 10:5-6; 15:21-28," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1990.
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bulletSenior, Donald, C.P., "Between Two Worlds: Gentile and Jewish Christians in Matthew's Gospel," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1999.
bulletReviews:
bullet Review: Glenna Jackson, 'Have Mercy on Me': The Story of the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15.21-28. (Sheffield Academic Press, 2002) Review by Pd Dr. Luzia Sutter Rehmann in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
bullet Reviews: Frances Taylor Gench, Back to the Well: Women's Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels. Westminster John Knox, 2004. Reviews by Orysya Hachko, Kelly Iverson, and Betsy J Bauman-Maring in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
bulletSermons:
bullet "Who Gets to Enter the Temple?" the Rev. William Blake Rider, Day 1, 2006.
bullet "Letter to a Canaanite Woman," Mary Hinkle, Pilgrim Preaching.
bullet"Kyrie, Eleison," Jim Sturges, Today's Gospel Insights.
bullet "Crumbs from the Master's Table," 13 Pentecost - 14 August 2005, Hubert Beck, Göttinger Predigten im Internet: Every Sunday Sermons based on the RCL by a team of Lutheran theologians/ pastors.
bullet "Crumbs from the Table," "Overcoming Barriers," Richard J. Fairchild, Sermon & Lectionary Resources.
bullet "Yelping Puppies - The Canaanite Woman," Sermons from Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington.
bullet "Sermon for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost," Bishop Steven Charleston, Day 1, 2005.
bullet "God of Mongrels," the Rev. Dr. Gail Ricciuti, 30 Good Minutes, Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 2001.
bullet "Jesus Beyond the Boundary," Dean William Willimon, Duke Chapel, 1999.
bulletFather Andrew M. Greeley, "Priest, Author, Sociologist," Commentary and Homily:
bullet Ordinary 20, 2005
bullet Ordinary 20, 2002
bullet Ordinary 20, 1996
bulletWith Children:
bullet "A Clean Heart," and "Crumbs from the Table," Charles Kirkpatrick, Sermons4kids.com.
bullet "Woman's Faith," Fr. Max Bowers, Kid's Church.
bullet "Fixing Hurts," Lois Parker Edstrom, Lectionary.org.
bullet "What Is Clean in the Site of God?" "A Greek Woman Asks Jesus' Help for her Daughter," Sunday School Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc.
bulletDrama:
bullet "Foreign Dogs," from A Certain Jesus by Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications.
bulletGraphics & Bulletin Materials:
bullet Clip Art, Matthew 15:28, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
bullet "Crumbs from the Master's Table," Scripture Pics - graphics relating to RCL texts, Matt Baker, Germantown UMC, Ohio.
bulletClip Art Images: Matthew 15:21-28, Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú.
bullet Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:21-28, Liturgical Drawing, Maria d.c. Zamora, Claretian Resources, Philippines. ("Download and use these for free.")
bullet Matthew 15:21-28, at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration. Liberation emphasis.
bulletHymns and Music:
bullet Contemporary/Praise Song suggestions, Together to Celebrate, David MacGregor.
bullet Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Matthew 15;25, 27. The Cyber Hymnal.
bullet"Come Gather," Brenton Prigge, NewHymn, new, relevant hymn set to traditional tunes.
bullet "She Came to Jesus," Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, Richard Fairchild's Sermons & Sermon Lectionary Resources.
bulletFine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
bullet Canaanite/Syro-Phoenician Woman
bulletParables
bulletMovies scenes with the following themes, listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
bullet Clean/Unclean
bulletSeeing/Not Seeing
bulletStudy Links and Resources for the Book of Matthew