Matthew’s Non-Markan Source(s)
In his comment to my message “Re: balance of plausibility” Andrew Criddle has this to say: I do think that the question of Matthew’s source for non-Markan material needs more discussion. To simplify...
View ArticleManuscript Quiz for Matt 3:16-17
Gregory-Aland P67 (P. Barcelona 1) is the oldest manuscript that contains Matt 3:15. What’s the oldest manuscript that contains Matt 3:16-17? UPDATE (Dec. 4, 2006, 9:20 a.m. EST): No one got it yet....
View ArticleMatt 3:16-17 in POxy 3.405
The answer to the manuscript quiz, from Andrew Criddle and Eric Rowe, is P. Oxy. 3.405 (Camb. MS Add. 4413), which is a portion of a 2d/3d century payrus roll of Irenaeus, adv. haer. that quotes Matt...
View ArticleCan Matthew Count to Fourteen?
(UPDATE: please see the vigorous comment section below.) James F. McGrath’s latest defense of Q, Spoiling Christmas vs. Spoiling Q (Nov. 10, 2007), makes several arguments why Luke could not have known...
View ArticleBlomberg on Matt 1:17
Craig L. Blomberg’s treatment of Matt 1:17 came up in the comments to my previous post, Can Matthew Count to Fourteen? (Nov. 11, 2007). In my research into the interpretation of 1:17, I have found...
View ArticleAn Extra Generation at Matt 1:11?
Complicating our investigation into why Matthew has 41 generations is that some manuscripts have 42 generations in the genealogy. In particular, at Matt 1:11 some manuscripts insert a generation for...
View ArticleChristmas Exegesis for Matt 1:18
Merry Christmas! And as a Christmas gift to readers of Hypotyposeis, I would like offer a mini-exegesis of Matthew 1:18, which reads: Τοῦ δὲ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡ γένεσις οὗτως ἦν, μνηστευθείσης τῆς μητρὸς...
View ArticleMatthew’s Genesis
Bill Mounce has an article about translating γένεσις in Matt 1.1: γένεσις and the title of Matthew’s gospel (Monday with Mounce 194). He offer three suggestions, following Don Carson, for the...
View ArticleMattheanisms
Using the same approach I previously discussed about “Lukanisms,” this list of “Mattheanisms” includes those words that occur at least twice more frequently in Matthew as expected on an even...
View ArticleCBQ Article on Matt 1:17 Published
I am happy to report that my article has been published: “The Davidic Key for Counting the Generations in Matthew 1:17,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 76 (2014): 665-683. There is no abstract but the...
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