Talmud and Matthew’s Gospel
Jim Davila’s PaleoJudaica blog has an entry mentioning an opinion piece in the Toronto Star about a story in the Talmud about Rabbi Gamaliel apparently quoting from the Gospel of Matthew (c. 72) and...
View ArticleLuke’s Knowledge of Matthew?
One aspect of the Farrer (Mark-Matthew) theory that differs from the standard Two-Source (Mark-Q) theory is that Luke used, in addition to Mark, Matthew instead of Q for the double tradition material....
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 ArticleMatthew’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 ArticleLuke’s Knowledge of Matthew?
One aspect of the Farrer (Mark-Matthew) theory that differs from the standard Two-Source (Mark-Q) theory is that Luke used, in addition to Mark, Matthew instead of Q for the double tradition material....
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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