Allison, Dale C. The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1993.

Anderson, Janice Capel. Matthew's Narrative Web. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.

Brown, Raymond E. The Birth of the Messiah. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1993.
Encyclopedic and quite helpful for preachers of Matthew in Advent.

Carter, Warren. Matthew: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.

Hare, Douglas R.A. Matthew. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1993.
Hare gets it important scholarly issues in Matthew yet does so in an easy-to-read style that is friendly to the tasks of teaching and preaching.

Hill, David. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972.
A useful, basic commentary on Matthew.

Kingsbury, Jack Dean. Matthew as Story. 2nd rev. ed. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.

Levine, Amy-Jill, "Matthew," in The Women's Bible Commentary. Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, Eds.; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1992. 252-62.

Patte, Daniel. The Gospel According to Matthew. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987.
An integrative commentary for understanding the whole of Matthew "structurally."

Schweizer, Eduard. The Good News According to Matthew. Atlanta: John Knox, 1975.
A very helpful, basic commentary on Matthew's Gospel.

Homiletical and Pastoral Resources on Matthew

Craddock, Fred. The Gospels. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981.
Craddock treats Matthew in one of his chapters. He is both an excellent Biblical scholar and an insightful homiletician.

Ourisman, David J. From Gospel to Sermon: Preaching Synoptic Texts. St. Louis: Chalice, 2000.
Ourisman thinks that preachers should take the narrative shape of the whole Gospel in to account when preaching it. He devotes a whole chapter to preaching from Matthew.

Powell, Mark. God With Us: A Pastoral Theology of Matthew's Gospel. Minn.: Fortress, 1995.
Powell is a biblical scholar, but sums up his take on Matthew's theology from a pastoral point of view, i.e., in light of Matthew's view of worship, mission, social action, etc. This book can offer a helpful overview for preachers

Smith, D. Moody. Interpreting the Gospels for Preaching. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.

Preaching Apocalyptic Motifs in Matthew

Jacobsen, David Schnasa. Preaching in the New Creation: The Promise of NT Apocalyptic Texts. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999.
I consider how to interpret apocalyptic texts in light of their language and symbols with a view toward how they relate to our present symbolic world. One section of the book looks at Matthew 28:1-10 in particular.

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