Matthew 1:1-25: In the Year of Jubilee?

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The genealogies of Matthew and Luke reflect diverging Jewish opinions about the time for the advent of the redeemer.

Considerable ink has been spilled regarding Matthew’s selection of the individuals in his genealogy (including three women: Tamar, Rahab and Ruth), and the differences between his list and that of Luke 3:23-38. My attention is drawn, on the other hand, to the underlying structures of the two lists and what they were intended to tell us about the message of the Evangelists concerning the time in which Christ was born.

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  • [1] J. T. Milik, The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).
  • [2] Milik, Books of Enoch, 252.
  • [3] Milik, Books of Enoch, 257.
  • [4] Milik, Books of Enoch, 252.

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  • R. Steven Notley

    R. Steven Notley

    R. Steven Notley is the Dean of Religious Studies at Pillar College in Newark, New Jersey. Previously he was the Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins on the New York City campus of Alliance University (2001-2023). He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew…
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