Old Testament Conotations of Sermon on the Mount (according to Matthew)

A thesis on "New Testament" Theology is aimed to search for the continuity with "Old Testament". A subject of the thesis is so called Sermon on the Mount which is recorded in Matthew 5-7. First, it was necessary to clarify what was considered as a Bible at the time of so called "New Testament" era since canonisation of scripture was not fixed by the Jewish authorities yet. Though, a written version of some of the books was already approved, there was a difference between the text of the Bible which was valid for the Jews living in Palestine and the one which was valid for the Greek speaking Jews in Diaspora. The Bible (also known by the acronym Tanakh) was composed by Torah (five books of Moses), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ktuvim (Writings). For a sake of the thesis it was important to try to identify how was the Bible perceived by Jesus himself and then, to compare his perceiving with what we understand as an "Old Testament" today. Jesus's teaching - which we learned from the gospells - refered also as a rabbinic teaching to "oral Torah" and to the other sources as well. Several commentaries of Czech, non-Czech and also some Jewish schollars were used for analysis and were combined with a comparative study of "Sermon on the Mount" and Christian "Old Testament" by its content and its language. It has been..