Last month the Review of Biblical Literature published my review of Anslow’s dissertation-turned-monograph:

Anslow, Matthew. Fulfilling the Law and the Prophets: The Prophetic Vocation of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2022. Pp. xxxiv + 358. Paper. $48.00. ISBN 9781666731194.

Here’s the final paragraph of the review:

Overall, Anslow offers intriguing, well-researched views of the four passages featured in chapters 4–7 through the lens of Jesus’s prophetism. His narrative-critical analysis truly shines, though the brilliance is sometimes obscured by overconfident assertions from social historians and much material from the original dissertation that should have been trimmed. In the end, Anslow does not prove any thesis about Jesus being portrayed as a popular prophet; he rather asserts that “Jesus is, after all, a popular prophet” (149) as a premise for analyzing the passages in the Gospel. If that premise were not overdetermined by the “working definition,” Anslow might have had eyes to see that the First Gospel portrays John as a “prophet” and “more than a prophet” who precedes the coming of YHWH (Matt 11:9–10; contra 64 n. 262), and so it portrays Jesus not merely as a prophet but also as YHWH himself who sends out his prophets, the disciples (cf. Matt 5:11–12; 23:24).

If you are a member of SBL, you can access it at this link. If you are not, you can contact me for a PDF.