The Mysteries of the Kingdom examines, in greater depth, the ancient literary patterns found in the Gospel of Matthew. It is the literary patterns - the very same ones found in the Old Testament - that will lead the reader and student to the wisdom found in the Book of Matthew. The mysteries of the kingdom were reserved for disciples. Are you one?

Taken from The Mysteries of the Kingdom:

The literary devices Matthew chose to use have virtually no place in Western literary architecture. And this is the problem we face when we attempt to understand the ancient Hebrew book of Matthew by using Western literary methods. Viewed through our modern literary eyes, we see a biography, which is not, as we shall see, the highest purpose Matthew intended. Matthew used the ancient Hebrew literary conventions known as chiasmus, parallelism, the seven-fold pattern, and the dirge pattern to organize his Gospel. These literary conventions are as foreign to the modern-day reader as Chinese is to a Texan. Yet, within these ancient conventions lie the keys to understanding Matthew as never before.

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