![]() ![]() You just don’t have time in Matthew, they’re just there. So according to Matthew, you don’t have any time actually in the narrative of Matthew for the whole moving from Nazareth to Bethlehem narrative that you get in the Gospel of Luke. They meet up with King Herod the Great, he gets his wise men to consult, they then find out they’re supposed to go to Bethlehem, they journey to Bethlehem, and then they get there not long after Jesus is born. It doesn’t say they’re from Galilee, it doesn’t say they’re originally from Nazareth, they’re just in Bethlehem, and they’re in Bethlehem well before Jesus is born because the wise men in the East see the star and it takes them enough time to travel from Persia, we’re supposed to understand from the narrative because they’re called Magi, and those are wise men from Persia, all the way to Jerusalem. For example, if you just take Matthew, as I’ve said before, Jesus’ family seems to simply be in Bethlehem. ![]() Just to try to figure out how this would work, if you took the birth narratives of Matthew and Luke it would be very, very difficult to find out historically what happened. I mentioned the differences between Matthew and Luke as far as the birth narratives. We’ve also got a lot of other situations where this would be very difficult. And we saw that it’s very, very difficult to harmonize Galatians 1 and 2 with the account of Acts in Paul’s movements around Jerusalem. If you remember, early in the semester we talked about Galatians 1 and 2, and Acts, and we tried to compare exactly when did Paul go where with regard to Jerusalem, Damascus, Antioch. Professor Dale Martin: Okay, we’ve already talked about the problems of using these texts historically. Contradictory Accounts in the New Testament Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature RLST 152 - Lecture 13 - The Historical JesusĬhapter 1. ![]()
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