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Hello, I'm Stewart Fleming. I run Famous Fox Publishing, a small independent publisher of books on biblical exegesis from a conservative Evangelical standpoint which I hope will be interesting and helpful to readers from other traditions and backgrounds also.

• Matthew 1:1 and 1:17 Considered Together

  By stewartfleming on April 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  We have seen that Matt. 1:1 and 1:17 form an inclusio around Matthew’s “genealogical” table in verses 2-16. In this post, I wish, very quickly to look at the structure of v.17, and to suggest, very tentatively a link between… Read More ›

• Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ – a Possible Inter-textual Connection between Jesus’ Birth and the Events Leading to the Exile

  By stewartfleming on April 20, 2017 • ( 2 )

  Matthew’s genealogy divides Jesus’ family tree into three groups of 14 generations. I am currently attempting to understand the allocation of the generations to these three groups in two ways. The first is that Matthew’s generations are “births” – of which there… Read More ›

• The Carrying Away to Babylon – Between the Announcement and the Departure

  By stewartfleming on April 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

                 The Book of the Torah was found in the temple  while the money being used for the repair of the temple was being brought out (2 Chr. 34:14). This happened in the 18th year of the reign of good… Read More ›

• The Threefold Structure of Matthew 1:2-16 – Part 3

  By stewartfleming on April 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  We finished the previous post with a summary diagram of the pattern that I suggest Matthew is using to divide the forty births of vs. 2-16 into the three groups of v. 17. In this post I wish to make one or two… Read More ›

• The Threefold Structure of Matt. 1:2-16 – Part 2

  By stewartfleming on April 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In the first part of this extended post, I tried to show that David’s accession to the throne and Jechonias’ departure for Babylon form the two key points in the time line of Matthew’s “genealogy” (“birthology?”) of Christ in Matt…. Read More ›

• The Threefold Structure of Matt. 1:2-16 – Part 1

  By stewartfleming on April 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  I have been suggesting that a possible solution (I will be suggesting another solution later also!) to the “missing generation” problem in Matthew’s genealogy of Christ  is that Matthew’s three groups of 14 “generations” (in v.17) are actually three groups of… Read More ›

• “Now all the births from Abraham to David: fourteen births . . . ” (Matt. 1:17)

  By stewartfleming on April 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In a previous post, I suggested that one possible solution to the “missing generation” problem in Matthew’s genealogy of Christ is that the “generations” that Matthew speaks of in Matt. 1:17 are the 40 births or begettings from Abraham to Christ described… Read More ›

• A Davidic Key to Matthew’s Genealogy

  By stewartfleming on March 31, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In an informative and wide-ranging article, “The Davidic Key for Counting the Generations in Matthew 1:17” in a 2014 issue of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Australian scholar Stephen Carlson reviews solutions, as well as proposing his own solution , to… Read More ›

• A Chiastic Feature of Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ (Matt. 1:2-16)

  By stewartfleming on March 28, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Matthew says in Matt.1:1 that Jesus is the son of Abraham and the son of David. In his Genealogy of Christ which goes from verses 2 to 16, there are three sections. The first runs from Abraham to David, and… Read More ›