Tag: Transfiguration

• Jesus, Moses, Matthew and Literature

  As I see it, it’s unsustainable to regard the Gospels as history or biography as currently understood. The writer of Matthew’s Gospel wasn’t a ‘disinterested’ professional, assembling, evaluating, and presenting a comprehensive, strictly chronological, balanced account. He was a believer, writing an extended religious tract, to buttress the faith of other believers, and persuade the…

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  28th Oct 2022

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

  Exodus, Gospels, Jesus, Law, Literature, Moses, Mount Sinai, Sermon on Mount, Ten Commandments, Transfiguration

• The Birth of Moses (ii)

  Following on from the previous post, let’s say some more about the legend of the birth of Moses. It’s worth noting that there is a Hebrew word תֵּבָה (tevah) which appears in only two places in the Hebrew Bible. It means a box, or a chest. It’s used, firstly, of Noah’s Ark in the Genesis…

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  25th Oct 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Biblical Criticism, Hebrew Bible, Herod, Jesus, Legends, Matthew's Gospel, Moses, Noah, Transfiguration