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