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| | Sermon on the Mount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Michael Goulder, in MIDRASH AND LECTION IN MATTHEW, advances the theory that the Sermon on the Mount is a set of eight elaborations on the Eight Beatitudes, (with an interlude and an epilogue). |
 | | No, one cannot take the Sermon on the Mount as one's watchword and throw away the rest of the New Testament, and thereby avoid the question of Jesus' Person and Authority and sim- ply accept Him as a great moral teacher, like Epictetus or Confu- cius, or even like Amos or Isaiah. |
 | | On this hypothesis, is the Sermon on the Mount an actual sermon by Jesus, or a construction by Matthew for calendric purposes? |
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