We have been looking at Matthew’s genealogy of Christ, and have been doing so in terms of two alternative understandings of the term “generation” as used in Matt. 1:17 (primarily the first of these). They are 1) the (controversial!) meaning… Read More ›
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Judah and Jechonias and Their Respective Brethren
We have been looking at Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ in Matt. 1:1-17 and in this post I want to put forward a suggestion about Matthew’s inclusion of two, somewhat surprising, references (verse 2 and 11) to “brethren” – those of Judah and… Read More ›
Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ – a Possible Inter-textual Connection between Jesus’ Birth and the Events Leading to the Exile
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
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 ›
