First, the mission of Jesus. He is the Messiah whose coming was anticipated and prophesized throughout the Hebrew Bible, also ...

Professor Elizabeth Polczer, a biblical scholar at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, believes the Bible is the result of ...

The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of ... Jesus delivers five different sermons of this sort, just like the five books of Torah. There are a lot of elements in this story that ...

A biblical scholar has claimed that the Bible was written by more than 40 different people, including the famous books of ...

The structuring of Jesus' teaching into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law.

In Matthew's gospel, Jesus delivers five major speeches, which parallel the five great books of Moses known as the Pentateuch. The first and most important of Jesus' speeches is the Sermon on the ...

[Jerusalem Bible] Matthew 2:1-12, The Visit of the Magi 1 After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. 2 "Where is ...