JESUS AS MOSES The way Matthew then tells the story of Jesus draws on a lot of ... from the killing of the babies, in the birth narrative, to the Sermon on the Mount, to even to the way that ...

Matthew’s infancy narrative announces that Jesus’ birth is the climax of God’s long story with Israel. In addition, Jesus is presented as epitomizing all of Israel’s history. This is further shown in ...

For instance, both Matthew and Luke date Jesus’ birth toward the end of the reign of King Herod ... The episode seems more driven by Matthew’s theological interest in relating Jesus’ story to that of ...

Matthew describes Joseph as ... have any sexual relations with her until after Jesus was born in order to fulfil Isaiah’s prophesy of a virgin birth. Isaiah had said, “A virgin will become ...

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both assert that Mary conceived Jesus as a virgin. But while Luke tells the story without ...

Accordingly its consideration of the birth of Jesus ... in Paul’s Epistles, Gospel, or life which warrants the assumption that a legend must be constructed by Matthew and Luke to account for ...