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Matthew’s birth narrative - Coggle Diagram
Matthew’s birth narrative
Redaction criticism
Who is Matthew
A Jew —> writing for other jews
Uses lots of proof texts - Jesus is the messiah
King
Magi - Gold
Myrrh - link to suffering servant and his death
Frankensencee - priestly
Messiah
Save people
Line of David
Born in Bethlehem
Written in greek
Joseph’s perspective - writing for Jews - patriarchal society, more convincing than if from mary’s
Starts with genealogy
Joseph is from King Davids line
Genealogies always considered through the male line in Judaism (hence Joseph not Mary) - writing for Jews
Supernatural elements
Angel - not named
Star
Dreams
Escape to egypt
Parallel to Moses
Deadly threat to the baby (massacre of the innocents)
Exodus - leaving of Egypt
Catholic believe Matthew wrote 1st (other scholars believe Mark)
If this wasn’t 1st then could birth narrative be fabricated elements to highlight areas such as magi & escape to Egypt to appeal to Jewish readers to liken him to Moses
In Luke Shepards visit Jesus some of the lowerst in the class system — liken to appealing to Gentiles & universalism
The Magi were educated & rich - to appeal to the Jews
No mention of a census bringing them to Bethlehem from Nazareth like in Luke. Instead after Egypt they live in Nazareth to fulfill the proof text that he will be a Nazarene
Hooker - suffering survant