What Matthew’s Genealogy Tells Us Matthew’s Quartet
In the very first post in this series, we looked at Matthew’s curious Genealogy. Matthew opens his gospel with a genealogy, and he tells us …
What Genealogies Tell Us XII Patterns of Meaning
At the end of the last post I made a claim, and I owe you the proof. I said Genesis 11’s genealogy answers the question …
What Genealogies Tell Us XI A matching chain on the other side
Just 9 verses into Genesis Chapter 11 and we have a new problem. The flood had washed away the sinful culture and resulted in a …
What Genealogies Tell Us X A different genealogy, a different story
The genealogy in chapter ten exhibits a structure at once similar and quite different from the genealogies in chapters 5 & 11. But it operates …
What Genealogies Tell Us IX A different Genealogy, A different story
In the first post in this series, I said, “We assume a biblical genealogy works like a pedigree, or a family tree, as a list …