The earliest Christian mission to "all nations" in the light of Matthew's Gospel

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Israel and the nations -- Modern terms and concepts : problems and challenge -- Identification in ancient sources -- Usage in near-contemporary literature -- Later trajectories of the concepts -- Jesus and the nations -- Living traditions in the background of the Gospel -- Proseltyizing (Matthew 23.15) -- The nations in the design of the Gospel : signals of things to come -- The nations in the design of the Gospel : proclamation in word and deed -- The nations in the design of the Gospel : establishment of the kingdom -- The Great Commission (Matthew 28.16-20).