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by DCHindley
Sat Jul 25, 2015 5:40 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.
Replies: 32
Views: 36140

Re: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.

It may be too good to be true. Of course it is too good to be true. I mean, the 14 names from Abraham to David (counting inclusively) may be a coincidence (then again, maybe that number was pure Davidic gematria even in the Jewish scriptures), but to get the next 14 this genealogy has to drop a han...
by DCHindley
Thu Jul 23, 2015 4:49 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.
Replies: 32
Views: 36140

Re: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.

WRT the possibility of three dynastic lists in the Gospel of Matthew, it seems that a lot of effort - maybe too much - is required to "get" them out of the existing text, unless the author of Matthew encountered them in sources, and wasn't quite sure what he was dealing with and confused ...
by DCHindley
Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:21 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.
Replies: 32
Views: 36140

Re: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.

Just joshin' with ya, Ben. I did pick up on your direction in the OP right away. WRT the possibility of three dynastic lists in the Gospel of Matthew, it seems that a lot of effort - maybe too much - is required to "get" them out of the existing text, unless the author of Matthew encounter...
by DCHindley
Wed Jul 22, 2015 6:43 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.
Replies: 32
Views: 36140

Re: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.

Would it be safe, at this point, to submit the words of church fathers explaining, or perhaps explaining away, the dynastic aspect of the "desposyni" (little despots, where despot is not always a bad term in antiquity, buit does suggest that these family members were despots/rulers in wai...
by DCHindley
Wed Jul 22, 2015 5:12 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.
Replies: 32
Views: 36140

Re: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.

To be a king, he would have had to have been a biological descendant of David through the father. Jewish Royal succession could not pass through adoption or through the mother. I know this is the common view. But where does people like Cyrus fit into this description? Perhaps a stupid question, but...
by DCHindley
Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:32 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.
Replies: 32
Views: 36140

Re: Stephen C. Carlson and the Matthean genealogy.

This post is in response to a nice article penned by Stephen Carlson: The Davidic Key for Counting the Generations in Matthew 1:17 . ... I submit that, if anybody can lay claim to being the brother whose line the genealogy was meant to justify, Clopas is he. The original genealogy, with its fratern...
by DCHindley
Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:34 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: translation problems
Replies: 49
Views: 40526

Re: translation problems

FWIW There is a strong case that Romans 16:25-27 is post-Pauline. Andrew Criddle Yes, Harry Gamble's The Textual History of the Letter to the Romans (1979). Gamble seems to think that chapter 16 was the original postscript to the letter. Verses 16:25-27 are found in mss that end at chapter 14, and ...