The Genealogies of Jesus: a complementation (original) (raw)
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Abstract: throughout time the genealogies of Jesus (Matt 1.1-17 and Luke 3.23-38) have been interpreted specifically through harmonization theses and theses that include Mary. However, these theses possess a conjectural and artificial basis that creates unconvincing and unacceptable complications to a critical study. This article reviews those theses, pointing out their errors and incongruities. Subsequently, the author engages in a minute analysis of the genealogies. The result of the analysis is the revelation of new details and observations that lead to more logical, appropriate and enlightening solutions.
Jesus’ Genealogies: Coherence in Content
Summary: Jesus’ genealogies in Matthew and Luke are frequently dismissed as ‘irreconciliable’. Such claims, however, like certain defences of Jesus’ genealogies, are too quick. Matthew and Luke differ from one another, not because they are poor historians, nor because one of them provides Joseph’s genealogy while the other provides Mary’s, nor even because they are ‘theological genealogies’ (whatever such things might be), but because two individuals in Joseph’s ancestry (viz. Shealtiel and Matthan/Matthat) chose to be adopted/grafted into different family lines within their clan. Keywords: Matthew 1, Luke 3, genealogies, Jesus, Jehoiachin, Messiah, adoption. Date: Nov. 2019.
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throughout time the genealogies of Jesus (Matt 1.1-17 and Luke 3.23-38) have been interpreted specifically through harmonization theses and theses that include Mary. However, these theses possess a conjectural and artificial basis that creates unconvincing and unacceptable complications to a critical study. This article reviews those theses, pointing out their errors and incongruities. Subsequently, the author engages in a minute analysis of the genealogies. The result of the analysis is the revelation of new details and observations that lead to more logical, appropriate and enlightening solutions.
Jesus’ Genealogies: Coherence in Numbers
Summary: A brief look at the significance of certain numbers in Jesus’ genealogies and their immediate context. Key words: Matthew, Luke, genealogy, Jesus, 14, 42, Jubilee, ark, glory. Date: Mar. 2021.
Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah far from straightforward
“For those who study deeply into the Gospel text, Matthew’s prologue, contained in his first two chapters, is one of the most masterful pieces of writing ever presented to human eyes. The genealogy with which this prologue begins displays its full share of wondrous artistry, but so subtle is its turn that many commentators have failed to grasp the logic that it implies.”. Monsignor John McCarthy.
Difficulties of New Testament Genealogies
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The genealogies in Matthew and Luke are integral parts of those Gospels. They are remarkably precise documents, each accomplishing the aim of testifying to God's design in the birth of Jesus Christ. This article presents the purposes and peculiarities of each genealogy, and also examines the difficulties of interpretation attendant to them. Special attention is focused on the difficulties found when Matthew is compared to the OT. and on the difficulties found when Matthew is compared to Luke. Both genealogies are reckoned as accurate in even the smallest details.
At eighty words, Codex Bezae's variant text of the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3:23-31 presents one of the longest variations in the gospels. Yet the resulting genealogy, while essentially harmonized to Matthew's names, is no mere assimilation to Matthew, but reflects in several respects the editor's touch, for example, including Old Testament kings lacking in Matthew's list, adapting Matthew's list to Luke's phraseology, and rearranging the names to follow Luke's Christ-to-Adam sequence. The end result is a text that betrays little apparent interest in reproducing a putative "original," but rather reveals a process of development within the community or communities that superintended its growth.
The Genealogy as the Key to the Gospel according to Matthew
Journal of Biblical Literature, 1976
T HE uniqueness of Matthew's composition is accentuated by its unusual introduction; it is the only writing in the New Testament or in early Christian literature which begins with a table of ancestry. Certain features distinguish this register of names as a novel presentation of a family tree. In contrast to Luke 3:23-38 (the only other genealogy of Jesus in the NT), which delineates Jesus' forefathers in reverse order from his "father" Joseph back to Adam, a listing is offered which traces his ancestors from Abraham in a forward movement to Jesus himself. The verb iytvvr)otv ("he became the father of") is used 39 times to connect father and son pairs, but the rather monotonous progression is unexpectedly broken at the very end. Instead of a fortieth instance of the verb and therefore of a father-son relationship, the genealogy introduces Joseph as "the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus who is called the Christ" (1:16). Moreover, several women of different reputations have been included previously among the male descendants through whom the family line moves, even though they are not to be counted separately as individual generations. 1 Also in contrast to Luke's presentation -and most others -Matthew's genealogy is numerically structured according to a pattern which seems to demarcate three divisions each consisting of fourteen names: "Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David (are) fourteen generations and from David to the Babylonian Captivity fourteen generations and from the Babylonian Captivity to the Christ fourteen generations" (1:17).