In 1983, biblical scholar Robert Gundry was ousted from the Evangelical Theological Society. Gundry, in his lengthy ...

And it's very important that Jesus for Matthew is fully a man from Israel. Therefore, Matthew begins his gospel by taking all the genealogy of Jesus; he wanted to show that Jesus was the son of ...

Luke portrays Jesus’ family observantly going to Jerusalem ... Recalling the scandalous doings associated with some of the women noted in Matthew’s genealogy, Mary is found to be pregnant before her ...

Next the Lucan gospel traces Jesus' genealogy back to Adam in order ... Luke gives a different version of the Beatitudes than Matthew (6:20-23). In Luke, we also get the "woes" of Jesus (6:24-26 ...

In Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus (1:1-17. cf. Luke 3:23-38) four women are mentioned: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth 1 and Uriah’s wife 2 next to thirty-nine male characters. The Gospel of St. Luke gives us the ...

Family values are far from being Jesus’s main concern. In one saying echoed from Mark’s Gospel by Matthew and Luke, he speaks of an extravagant reward for those who have left home and family ...

The burial custom in Jesus’ day was for a body to be anointed with spices and wrapped in a cloth. It would then be placed in a tomb or cave and the entrance would be sealed.

Sinai in the book of Exodus. Many scholars accept the Two-Source Theory, that Matthew and Luke used the gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of Jesus' sayings called Q as sources.

Matthew is at pains to place his community squarely within its Jewish heritage, and to portray a Jesus whose Jewish identity is beyond doubt. He begins by tracing Jesus' genealogy. To do this ...

Matthew went ... the ministry of Jesus and in the Paschal Mysteries. Matthew thus has prepared us for the next stage of Christological and Marian development. He has spoken reverently of the Mother of ...