Chapter 1: Methodological issues -- Chapter 2: Matthew's gospel: introductory matters -- Chapter 3: Jewish Christianity: The search for appropriate terminology and the Mattheans -- Chapter 4: The theological orientation of Matthew's sources -- Chapter 5: Locating the Mattheans within their late first-century context -- Chapter 6: Matthew and the temple -- Chapter 7: Approaching first-century synagogues -- Chapter 8: The Mishnah -- Chapter 9: The myth of Yavneh and the Taqqanota of Rabban Yoh?anan ben Zakkai -- Chapter 10: Entrance to the Forbidden City: the utopian temple of rabbinic imaginings --Chapter 11: The Mishnah's transformation of temple sacrality -- Chapter 12: The spatial transferance of the temple's sacrality -- Chapter 13: Ways in which the Tannaim adapted the daily life of the people of Israel to post-destruction realities -- Chapter 14: Matthew and the Mishnah in the shadow of the temple's destruction