Tag: Prophecies

• The Gospels (4) ‘Religious Tracts’

  Continuing to look at the Gospels as literature – as religious tracts designed to confirm and persuade, with their contents selected and shaped to meet that aim – authors can be tempted to stretch things a bit, and indulge a bit of ‘hype’. To ‘prove’ that Jesus is the promised Messiah, Matthew ransacks the Jewish […]

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  24th Sep 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Gospels, Jesus, Literature, Messiah, Prophecies, Stories

• Matthew writes, not history, but his story …

  In a previous post, on the genealogy that opens Matthew’s Gospel, I was saying, let’s value these books for what they are, not for what they aren’t. Matthew’s aim was persuading us that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah and, from the Jewish scriptures, he engineered a three-piece genealogy designed to ‘demonstrate’ this. It was never […]

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  18th Jul 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Bible, Gospel, Jesus, Matthew, Messiah, Prophecies