From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 08:20:31 EST
Don Perrett wrote:
>
> >>>George Murphy said: This is part of what I mean by forcing the data. In
> his Mt commentary Gundry
> says:
> "To get this third fourteen Matthew probably counts Mary as well as Jospeh;
> i.e., the one chronological generation carries two other kinds of
> generations within it,
> a legal (Josph's) and a physical (Mary's)."
>
> We shouldn't imagine that Mt just didn't know how to count, or that he was
> hoping that nobody would notice that the last third of the genealogy had
> only 13
> generations. It's one thing to try to figure out the theo-logic which he
> was using, as
> Gundry does. It's quite another to claim that somehow Mt really does list
> 14 biological
> generations so that he's historically "inerrant.">>>>>>
>
> Although I've never discussed this particular issue with anyone/ever. It
> appears to me that the missing individual is Uriah. While he may not have
> been in a direct line with Jesus, as the "in-death" step-father of Solomon
> (and worth noting), this would make it "Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Judah, Perez,
> Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse and David (14)"
> then "Uriah, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Uzziah,
> Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, and Josiah (14)" and finally
> "Jeconiah, Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Akim, Eliud,
> Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph, and Jesus (14)".
>
> Why would anyone come to the conclusion that a woman (even though special)
> would be included in a family line. Is there any other instance of this in
> the Bible? Are there instances in the Bible where the deceased husband of
> one's wife is mentioned? Does the Bible ask that a brother take in the
> widowed wife? If so, then would it not make better sense that URIAH is
> included in order to legitamize Solomon as an offspring of David, though he
> may have been a "bastard"? Sorry for the term.
Solomon was in no way the son of Uriah or illegitimate. The 1st child born to
Bathsheba & David was born after Uriah's death & died himself (II Sam.11:27, 12:15-23).
Solomon was conceived after Uriah's death & Bathsheba had become David's wife (11:27,
12:24).
(Note that I say that Solomon was not illegitimate. One can make a good case in
light of his later career that he was a bastard in the popular sense but that's another
matter!)
Besides the wife of Uriah & Mary, 3 other women are included in Mt's genealogy
along with their husbands (or, in the case of Judah, Tamar's john. [Should that be
capitalized?]).
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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