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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.

• The Birth of Jesus in Matthew 1:18-25 – Part 4

  By stewartfleming on May 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  We have been looking at Matt. 1-18-25, and I have been attempting to identify its structural components. I have provisionally divided the passage into four sections, 18– 20a, 20b-21a, 21b-23 and 24-25. I have numbered these 1-4 respectively. The first,… Read More ›

• The Birth of Jesus in Matthew 1:18-25 (Part 3)

  By stewartfleming on May 5, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In the previous post, we looked at the chiastic structure of the first half of Matt. 1:18-25. In this post, I want to suggest a possible structural analysis for the second half—that is from verses 21b –25. We actually divided… Read More ›

• The North Galatian Hypothesis

  By stewartfleming on May 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The question of the recipients of Paul’s letter to the Galatians continues to be debated. The two opposing viewpoints are the South Galatian Hypothesis and the North Galatian Hypothesis. The South Galatianists believe that Paul wrote to churches in the… Read More ›

• The Birth of Jesus in Matt 1:18-25 (Part 2)

  By stewartfleming on April 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In this post, I wish to look at the first half of Matthew 1:18-25. In the previous post, I suggested that Matt. 1:18-25 could be divided into four sections, and we looked at sections 2 and 4 considered together; in… Read More ›

• The Birth of Jesus in Matt 1:18-25 (Part 1)

  By stewartfleming on April 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In this post, I wish to start to look at the chiastic structure of Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth in Matt.1:18-25. This is a total of 167 words in the Textus Receptus. (Nestle-Aland has 161 words). I will be working… Read More ›

• When Did the Philippian Jailer Believe? – a Proposed Chiastic Analysis of Acts 16:31-34

  By stewartfleming on April 24, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In Acts Ch. 16 we have the exciting account of Paul and Silas’ arrest and subsequent release from prison. In the centre of this narrative, there is the account of the conversion of the Philippian jailer. Because of the current… Read More ›

• When did the Philippian Jailer believe? – Some thoughts concerning language and logic.

  By stewartfleming on April 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The account of the conversion of the Philippian Jailer is found in Acts Ch. 16. The particular verses that I will be considering here are verses 31-34. I have recently been in dialogue with a thoughtful and gracious fellow “blogger”… Read More ›

• 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 ›