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 ›
Genealogy
The Threefold Structure of Matt. 1:2-16 – Part 1
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)
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
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)
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 ›
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