Enemies of Israel : Ruth and the Canaanite Woman

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Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria

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This article elaborates on the author’s monograph “Have mercy on me”: The story of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15.21-28 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002). According to the monograph, Matthew uses the Psalms, the story of Ruth and rabbinic tradition to turn Mark’s story of the Syrophoenician woman (7:24-30) into a conversion formula for entrance into the Jewish community. This article employs an intertextuality approach to enhance the theory of proselytism in Matthew’s gospel. The Canaanite woman passes three-time rejection, one-time acceptance test that the first-century rabbis delineated from the story of Ruth for converting to Judaism.

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Ruth, Theory of proselytism

Sustainable Development Goals

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Jackson, GS 2003, 'Enemies of Israel: Ruth and the Canaanite Woman', HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 779-792.[http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/issue/archive]