Community and Beginnings. Rereading the Past : Memory and Identity in Post-Communist Croatia and the Genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew ; A South Africa Contextual Reading of Matthew 1:1-17 -- Children and Family. What Child Is This? : A Contextual Feminist Literary Analysis of the Child in Matthew 2 ; The Canaanite Woman (Matthew 15:22-28) : Discharging the Stigma of Single Moms in the African American Church ; When Mommy Goes to Work : A Contemporary Analysis of the Canaanite Mother ; Matthean "Mothers" and Disenfranchised Hong Kong Working Mothers ; The Emotive Semantics of Asian Context : What Does Jesus' Sorrow in Gethsemane (Matthew 26:36-46) Signify for a Korean Pastor's Kid? -- Disability and Culture. Reading Matthew's Healing Narratives from the Perspectives of the Caregiver and the Disabled ; Reading Matthew's Gospel with Deaf Culture -- Laborers and Empire. "Why Are You Sitting There?" : Reading Matthew 20:1-16 in the Context of Casual Workers in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa ; Reading the Matthean Apocalypse (Matthew 24-25) in the Glocalization Context of Hong Kong's Bourgeois Society and Middle-Class Churches ; Resist No Evil and Save No Money : Reading the Sermon on the Mount for a Christian Social-Economic Ethics in China -- Community and Borders. The Hard Sayings of Jesus in Real-World Context : Reading Matthew 5:38-48 within the Occupied Palestinian Territories ; Reading the Gospel of Matthew Ecologically in Oceania : Matthew 4:1-11 as Focal Text ; Matthew 6:9b-13 (The Lord's Prayer) : Explorations into a Latino/a Optic on Language and Translation ; Matthew's "Least of These" Theology and Subversion of "Us/Other" Categories.