Previously I've pointed out the 'ending of exile' as indicated in Mt 1:2-17 was considered delayed until the Messiah arrived (see here and here), and the first chart I put up last time also indicates this.
Today I noticed that at the same time that I mentioned this feature in Matthew 1 (September 2016) Brill published a book advocating that this is an importnant feature in Matthew (in their series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements): Matthew’s New David at the End of Exile: A Socio-Rhetorical Study of Scriptural Quotations by Nicholas G. Piotrowski.
I discovered this book today after noticing a new article where Piotrowski discusses the issue of 'unended exile' in which he asserts that
a growing chorus of voices is supporting, with various levels of enthusiasm, the thesis that a significant number of late Second Temple Jewish groups indeed understood themselves to be languishing in some form of exile.Nicholas G. Piotrowski, "The Concept of Exile in Late Second Temple Judaism: A Review of Recent Scholarship, Currents in Biblical Research, vol 15, Issue 2 (Feb 2017): 214-247.
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