Akiva Cohen investigates the general research question: how do the authors of religious texts reconstruct their community identity and ethos in the absence of their central cult? His particular socio-historical focus of this more general question is: how do the respective authors of the Gospel according to Matthew, and the editor(s) of the Mishnah redefine their group identities following the destruction of the Second Temple?

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Born 1960; Bachelor of Religious Studies, Tyndale College, Toronto, Canada; Master of Arts, Trinity International University, Deerfield, Ill., USA; 2008 PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel; has taught New Testament studies at Jerusalem University College, and Ben Gurion University in the Deichmann Program for Jewish and Christian Literature of the Hellenistic-Roman Era, Israel.