New Testament Gospels
Another Unusual Feature of Matthew’s Genealogy: The Women!
Since I've started talking about Matthew's genealogy, I've decided to stick with it a bit longer. Most of my students, when they pick up the New Testament and I have them start at the beginning, they begin with Matthew 1:1 and moan. A genealogy?!? Ugh. I tell them to get over it. This thing is only 16 verses long. C'mon! If you want a GENEALOGY, read 1 Chronicles 1-9. Nine CHAPTERS of fathers and sons, starting with Adam. Now *that* is a genealogy! (Anecdote: when I was an undergraduate at Moody Bible Institute in the mid 70's, for some reason I had to take a correspondence course to fill out one of my requirements. This is back when a correspondence course meant doing it as correspondence -- through the mail! It was some kind of broadly based Bible class, and one of the requirements was that you had to memorize and then reproduce a certain number of verses from the Bible. You could choose. Just your favorite verses. They were expecting, of course, things like [...]