----- Original Message ----- From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: fun with jesus geneology
> Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, and Eliakim are common to both Matthew's geneology > and Luke's, but in a different order. > > > > There are other absurdities among the geneologies, but this should do for > ye. To go back to a serious note, virtually no non-fundamentalist biblical scholar (IMHO kinda redundant) thinks that the genealogy of Jesus was meant to be taken literally. Quoting Raymond Brown (a middle of the road scripture scholar who write a nice little 700 page book on the infancy narratives): "In face of these enormous differences it may be well to repeat the admonition offered by R.R. Wilson...It is possible to have conflicting genealogies of the same person if those genealogies have different functions. Only one or neither of them may be historical in terms of traceable biological lineage, but both of them may be accurate in terms of the function they serve, e.g., Matthew's intention to show that Jesus is the Davidic Messiah, and Luke's intention to show that Jesus is the Son of God. " If you want to really have fun, you need to ask "what theological point is the evangelist trying to make?" Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
