019: Validating an Outlier's Perspective (Matt 3:1–6)

Episode 19 (Matt 3:1–6) 

Noting two points:

1. Validating the Outlier Perspective of John the Cleanser (I say "outsider" but "outlier" is probably a more accurate term;

2. Cataloging John's Various Credentials.

 

018: John's Mission (National repentance, Matt 3:1–6)

Part 1 of Matthew chapter 3 John the Baptist calls for national repentance Response is massive

017: Masculinity Studies?

Why poetics of Matthew research is not quite masculinity studies.

Should I remove the term "masculinity" from the name of the podcast?

This question is once more on my mind since I have recently received my first book review by Sébastien Doane.

016: Matthew 2 part 5. Nazareth in Galilee as Refuge

Matthew 2:19–23. 

Jesus grows up in a small town (Nazareth) in Galilee, at a safe distance from Jerusalem. Why?

015: For Her Children. Matthew 2 part 4

Matthew 2:16–18

Herod kills the children. "Rachel" weeps for her children.

014: Out of Egypt I Called My Son. Matthew 2 part 3

In the middle of the night, Joseph hides the child and the child's mother in Egypt.

Verses 13–15 of Matthew chapter 2.

013: The Magi's Success. Matthew 2 part 2

Matthew 2:7–12

The Magi do not follow all of Herod's instructions

Why are they warned in a dream?

012: "and all Jerusalem with him" Matthew 2 part 1

The first six verses of Matthew 2.

Why does it say "and all Jerusalem with him" was troubled?

011: Concluding Matthew 1

In this episode I offer some conclusions for Matthew chapter 1 as I begin to prepare to move on to study other chapters.

In the last 9 minutes I read from the Epilogue of my forthcoming book looking at how Matthew 28 corresponds to Matthew 1.

010: Flipping Patriarchal Agendas. The human pattern of five

Finally in this episode I get to answer the question: Why does the genealogy in Matthew chapter one refer to five stories of how particular heirs were produced in a particular way by particular patriarchs from particular mothers ...? So why five? Why five stories? Is there some pattern? 

Last time in episode nine I compared the first story with the final the fifth story so this time in episode 10 I'm concentrating on the middle three stories and how do they fit the overall pattern; particularly the middle of the middle story: the story of how Boaz produced Obed from Ruth.

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