[44], A more straightforward and the most common explanation is that Luke's genealogy is of Mary, with Eli being her father, while Matthew's describes the genealogy of Joseph. Each of these texts then goes on to describe, just as in Julius Africanus (but omitting the name of Estha), how Melchi was related to Joseph through a levirate marriage. Yet evidently Matthew didn't find his respective genealogy incompatible with these prophecies. After wrestling with a man all night (who was actually Jesus is human form) Jacob's name is changed to Israel (Genesis 32). On a recent episode of Father Simon Says™, Fr. [6], The rendering into Greek of Hebrew names in this genealogy is mostly in accord with the Septuagint, but there are a few peculiarities. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. Another difference is found in their collocation: St. Matthew places his list at the beginning of his Gospel; St. Luke, at the beginning of the public life of Christ. Genealogy of Jesus: Adam – Man: Seth – is appointed: Enosh [Enos] – a mortal man of: Kenan [Cainan] – sorrow is born! The genealogy in Matthew 1 is clearly that of Joseph, Mary's husband. [6], Matthew's introductory title (βίβλος γενέσεως, book of generations) has been interpreted in various ways, but most likely is simply a title for the genealogy that follows, echoing the Septuagint use of the same phrase for genealogies.[7]. The Talmud states, “A mother’s family is not to be called a family.” Even the few women Luke does mention were not the most prominent women in the genealogy of Yeshua. It is overtly schematic, organized into three sets of fourteen, each of a distinct character: The total of 42 generations is achieved only by omitting several names, so the choice of three sets of fourteen seems deliberate. It was contrary to Jewish practice to name women in a genealogy. The Qurʼan upholds the virgin birth of Jesus (ʻĪsā)[115] and thus considers his genealogy only through Mary (Maryam), without mentioning Joseph. This version is in ascending order from Joseph to Adam. Luke traces it from Adam to Christ, for more than seventy generations. Converging sections are shown with a green background, and diverging sections are shown with a red background. Augustine, for example, attempted on several occasions to refute every criticism, not only because the Manichaeans in his day were using the differences to attack Christianity,[34] but also because he himself had seen them in his youth as cause for doubting the veracity of the Gospels. [74] On the other hand, the resemblance between Matthan and Matthat suggests they are the same man (in which case Jacob and Eli are either identical or full brothers involved in a levirate marriage), and Matthew's departure from Luke at that point can only be to follow legal line of inheritance, perhaps through a maternal grandfather. Both Matthew 1 and Luke 3 contain genealogies of Jesus. 23:1–3), not the Roman legal tradition. [1] Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam. Proud member More controversial are the prophecies on the Messiah's relation, or lack thereof, to certain of David's descendants: The promise to Solomon and Jeconiah's curse, if applicable, argue against Matthew. Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Abu 'Abd Allah al-Shaybani, for instance, is prevalently called "Ibn Hanbal" instead of "Ibn Mohammad". The Church Fathers held that both accounts are true. If we read Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38 carefully, we can clearly see that both … This view has this greatly in its favor, that it shows that Jesus was not merely the legal but the actual descendant of David; and it would be very strange that in the gospel accounts, where so much is made of Jesus being the son and heir of David and of his kingdom his real descent from David should not be given.--ED.). So, in theory, he could have married Nathan's widow. [15] After telling of the baptism of Jesus, Luke 3:23–38 states, "Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was [the son] of Heli, ..." (3:23) and continues on until "Adam, which was [the son] of God." [111] He sees Biblical support in Paul's statement that Jesus was "born of a descendant of David according to the flesh". A few ancient authorities seem to offer this interpretation. Through either Mary’s or Joseph’s line, Jesus is a descendant of David and therefore eligible to be the Messiah. [11], The final group also contains fourteen generations. The genealogy in Luke 3:23-28 ascends from Joseph to Adam or rather to God; this is the first striking difference between the genealogies as presented in the First and Third Gospel. However, Irenaeus counts only 72 generations from Adam. of Jesus Christ as the reputed and legal son of Joseph and Mary. [79], The appearance of Zerubbabel and Shealtiel in Luke may be no more than a coincidence of names (Zerubbabel, at least, is a very common Babylonian name[80]). Still others[who?] From the statement in the ancient Greek text, it is difficult to tell what the book of the genealogy refers to. David's ancestors are also understood as progenitors of the Messiah in several prophecies. Shealtiel is given a completely different ancestry, and Zerubbabel a different son. Marcus J. Borg, John Dominic Crossan, The First Christmas (HarperCollins, 2009) page 95. Thus, it is likely that Luke's Shealtiel and Zerubbabel were distinct from, and perhaps even named after, Matthew's. The New Testament gives us the genealogy of but one person, that of our Saviour. Not physically, but as was recorded in the ledgers. There may be a common thread among these four women, to which Matthew wishes to draw attention. The suggestion is that Matthew may be preparing the reader for the inclusion of the Gentiles in Christ's mission. Additionally, the use of titles such as 'Son of God' and 'Son of David' are seen as evidence that they do not come from the earliest Gospel traditions. However, … [citation needed]. Bede assumed that Julius Africanus was mistaken and corrected Melchi to Matthat. Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ. None of these explanations, however, adequately befits all four women. If this is so, Mattatha is the son of Solomon according to the flesh and the son of Nathan according to the Law. But there is one problem--they are different. The prophecy of Nathan[83]—understood as foretelling a son of God who would inherit the throne of his ancestor David and reign forever—is quoted in Hebrews[84] and strongly alluded to in Luke's account of the Annunciation. For starters, Matthew begins the genealogy by stating, “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Mt. Thus: Matthan or Matthat father of Jacob, Heli Jacob father of Mary = Jacobe heir was (Joseph) Heli father of Joseph JESUS, called Christ. [76] He appears once in the genealogies in the Book of Chronicles,[77] where his descendants are traced for several generations, but the passage has a number of difficulties. The children born through Jacob, in their birth order, are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Isaachar, Zebulun, Dinah, Joseph and Benjamin. Jesus shares no biological relationship to Joseph and the 14 generations that preceded him. It might well befit a son of Zerubbabel, but some see the name as a misplaced title of Zerubbabel himself. This is also the point where Matthew departs from the Old Testament record. The Nestle-Aland critical edition, considered the best authority by most modern scholars, accepts the variant "son of Aminadab, son of Admin, son of Arni,"[23] counting the 76 generations from Adam rather than God. Additionally, Matthew divides the genealogy into three groups of fourteen generations, separated by important historic points (Matthew 1:17). In the Old Testament, Zerubbabel was a hero who led the Jews back from Babylon about 520 BC, governed Judah, and rebuilt the temple. I wish I could simply dwell on that theme alone, but there are a number of difficult problems raised by this text that we need to consider. The Old Testament predicted … Furthermore, interpolation between known dates would put the birth of Luke's Shealtiel at the very time when the celebrated Zerubbabel led the Jews back from Babylon. Jesus is called the son of both David and Abraham. Both may simply be assimilations to more familiar names. When Matthew says, "Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile," he appears to conflate the two, because Jehoiakim, not Jeconiah, had brothers, but the exile was in the time of Jeconiah. [28] Raymond E. Brown says the genealogies "tell us nothing certain about his grandparents or his great-grand-parents". “For us, genealogies are amazingly boring,” he admitted. The name Rhesa, given in Luke as the son of Zerubbabel, is usually seen as the Aramaic word rēʾšāʾ, meaning head or prince. “Asa” is a nod to the Psalms. [71] Attempts have been made to reconstruct Matthew's route, from the seminal work of Lord Hervey[72] to Masson's recent work,[73] but all are necessarily highly speculative. (Godet, Lange and many others take the ground that Luke gives the genealogy of Mary, rendering ( Luke 3:23 ) thus: Jesus "being (as was suppposed ) the son of Joseph, (but in reality) the son of Heli." [10] The author could have omitted them to create a second set of fourteen. Answer: Matthew’s genealogy traces the ancestors of Joseph, the legal father of Jesus. Or, Muhammad bin Idris asy-Syafi`i is always called "Imam Al-Shafi'i" instead of "Imam Idris" or "Imam Muhammad". [12] Others, including Victor Paul Wierwille,[64] argue that here the Aramaic original of Matthew used the word gowra (which could mean father), which, in the absence of vowel markings, was read by the Greek translator as gura (husband). Learn more Customer Service 800.778.3390 [50] In any case, the argument goes, it is natural for the evangelist, acknowledging the unique case of the virgin birth, to give the maternal genealogy of Jesus, while expressing it a bit awkwardly in the traditional patrilinear style. So we often find in the Old Testament the grandson called the son. Augustine considers it a sufficient answer that Joseph was the father of Jesus by adoption, his legal father, through whom he could rightfully claim descent from David. However, in the Old Testament, there are even wider gaps between generations. Heli died childless; Jacob raised up his seed by begetting Joseph who was his son according to the flesh, and Heli's son according to the Law. Jesus was called the “son of David” in Mat 1:1, which. Panther and Melchi were brothers, sons of Levi, of the stock of Nathan, whose father was David of the tribe of Judah. The genealogy of St. Matthew is Josephs genealogy as legal successor to the throne of David. More interesting, though, are the unique forms Boes (Boaz, LXX Boos) and Rachab (Rahab, LXX Raab). 2, col. 298–303. There were many who bore the name of Jesus— e.g., Jesus the son or Sirach, Jesus surnamed Justus (Colossians 4:11), possibly even Jesus Bar-abbas (Matthew 27:17). In his book An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, John Damascene argues that Heli of the tribe of Nathan (the son of David) died childless, and Jacob of the tribe of Solomon, took his wife and raised up seed to his brother and begat Joseph, in accordance with scripture, namely, yibbum (the mitzvah that a man must marry his brother's childless widow); Joseph, therefore, is by nature the son of Jacob, of the line of Solomon, but by law he is the son of Heli of the line of Nathan. [21] If so, the next generation in Luke, Joanan, might be Hananiah in Chronicles. [85] Likewise, the Psalms[86] record God's promise to establish the seed of David on his throne forever, while Isaiah[87] and Jeremiah[88] speak of the coming reign of a righteous king of the house of David. Luke's text says that Jesus was "a son, as was supposed, of Joseph, of Eli". [59] This claim was revived by Annius of Viterbo in 1498[60] and quickly grew in popularity. Marys name was omitted because "ancient sentiment did not comport with the mention of the mother as the genealogical link." [32], The contradictions between the lists have been used to question the accuracy of the gospel accounts since ancient times,[33] and several early Christian authors responded to this. For the article about claims to a genealogical descent from the, Lukan version of Levirate marriage theory. The Catholic Encyclopedia. Julius Africanus, explaining the origin of Joseph from levirate marriage, makes a mistake: At the end of the same letter, Africanus adds: "Matthan, a descendant of Solomon, begat Jacob. [102] Rahab was a prostitute in Canaan, Bathsheba was married to a Hittite, Ruth resided in Moab, and Tamar had a name of Hebrew origin. [21] Though Luke never counts the generations as Matthew does, it appears he also followed hebdomadic principle of working in sevens. In light of the above-mentioned circumstances, the differences between the two genealogies no longer present a problem. in which pseudo-Hilary cites it as an opinion held by many, though not himself. The problem is: the genealogies are different. It has been suggested that Eli is short for Eliakim,[45] which in the Old Testament is an alternate name of Jehoiakim,[54] for whom Joachim is named. [112] Affirmations of Mary's Davidic ancestry are found early and often.[113]. Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ." The first is rich in annotations, including four mothers and mentioning the brothers of Judah and the brother of Perez. If Joseph is not the biological father, his lineage does not apply to Jesus, and there is no provision available within Jewish law for this to be altered. According to this report, Joseph's natural father was Jacob son of Matthan, as given in Matthew, while his legal father was Eli son of Melchi (sic), as given in Luke. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Eusebius of Caesarea, on the other hand, affirmed the interpretation of Africanus that Luke's genealogy is of Joseph (not of Mary), who was the natural son of Jacob, though legally of Eli who was the uterine brother of Jacob. Mahalale [Mahaleel] – The Glory of God: Jared – shall come down: Enoch – instructing that: Methuselah – His death shall bring: Lamech – those in despair: Noah – Comfort and rest! (Godet, Lange and many others take the ground that Luke gives the genealogy of Mary, rendering (. The pre-exilic series Levi, Simeon, Judah, Joseph consists of the names of tribal patriarchs, far more common after the exile than before, while the name Mattathias and its variants begin at least three suspiciously similar segments. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ: So Matthew begins his account of the life of Jesus Christ. [13] Also, we do not see any instances of papponymic naming patterns, where children are named after their grandparents, which was a common custom throughout this period. He sees God working through Tamar's seduction of her father-in-law, through the collusion of Rahab the harlot with Joshua's spies, through Ruth the Moabite's unexpected marriage with Boaz, and through David and Bathsheba's adultery. Luke tells the story from her perspective.This proposal is sometimes linked to the judgment pronounced against the line of Solomon by Jeremiah, who prophesied that no descend… the gospels must list Jesus’ ancestors through his “father”, while the other one lists them through his mother. Matthew’s genealogy. From as early as John of Damascus, the view of "as was supposed of Joseph" regards Luke as calling Jesus a son of Eli—meaning that Heli (Ἠλί, Heli) was the maternal grandfather of Jesus, with Luke tracing the ancestry of Jesus through Mary. A woman whose husband died without issue was bound by law to be married to her husband's brother, and the first-born son of such a so-called levirate marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother (Deuteronomy 25:5 sqq.). Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. If Josiah's son was intended as Jehoiakim, then Jeconiah could be counted separately after the exile. Maloney C.M., Robert P. 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[106] Modern scholars like Raymond Brown (1973) and Géza Vermes (2005) suggest that the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth is simply an invention of Luke.[107]. [22], The reading "son of Aminadab, son of Aram," from the Old Testament is well attested. Matthew's genealogy is considerably more complex than Luke's. The following propositions will explain the true construction of these genealogies:-- They are both the genealogies of Joseph, i.e. Luke's genealogy starts at Adam and goes to David.Matthew's genealogy starts at Abraham and goes to David.When the genealogies arrive at David, they split with David's sons: Nathan (Mary's side?) It must be added that the levirate links between the two genealogies are found not only at the end, but also in the beginning. The average generation gap would be around forty-four years. [72], A key difficulty with these explanations, however, is that there is no adoption in Jewish law, which of course is the relevant legal tradition even according to Jesus (Matt. Jesus is presented as the long-awaited Messiah, who was expected to be a descendant of King David. [39][40], It has been questioned, however, whether levirate marriages actually occurred among uterine brothers;[41] they are expressly excluded in the Halakhah Beth Hillel but permitted by Shammai. Others point out an apparent element of sinfulness: Rahab was a prostitute, Tamar posed as a prostitute to seduce Judah, Bathsheba was an adulteress, and Ruth is sometimes seen as seducing Boaz—thus Matthew emphasizes God's grace in response to sin. The simple principle that one evangelist exhibits that genealogy which contained the successive heir to Davids and Solomons throne, while the other exhibits the paternal stem of him who was the heir, explains all the anomalies of the two pedigrees, their agreements as well as their discrepancies, and the circumstance of there being two at all. There are, however, other interpretations of how this qualification relates to the rest of the genealogy. Shem – The fame of: Arphaxed – Babylon’s Fortress The New Testament provides two accounts of the Genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 1:1-17) and another in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 3:23-38).The Family Tree of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew starts with Abraham, while in Luke it begins with Adam, but that is not the only difference.. of [12], Fourteen generations span the time from Jeconiah, born about 616 BC, to Jesus, born circa 4 BC. There are 77 generations … (3:38) The Greek text of Luke's Gospel does not use the word "son" in the genealogy after "son of Joseph". This conclusion is obvious because both genealogies intersect in the middle at Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel (see Mt 1:12–13; Lk 3:27). In the fragments that are quoted, he explained that Matthan, the father of Jacob who was the father of Joseph in Matthew’s genealogy, was the first husband of a woman named Estha (the name of the woman is given by Africanus, though her name is not given in Scripture). A Jewish tradition relating Mary to Luke's genealogy is recorded in the Doctrina Jacobi (written in 634), in which a Tiberian rabbi mocks the Christian veneration of Mary by recounting her genealogy according to the tradition of the Jews of Tiberias:[55], Why do Christians extol Mary so highly, calling her nobler than the Cherubim, incomparably greater than the Seraphim, raised above the heavens, purer than the very rays of the sun? "But let us now return to where the Jew is introduced, speaking of the mother of Jesus, and saying that "when she was pregnant she was turned out of doors by the carpenter to whom she had been betrothed, as having been guilty of adultery, and that she bore a child to a certain soldier named Panthera. He said to him: we will speak to you in the name of Jesus son of Pandera"; Jerusalem Shabboth 14:4/13: "Jacob… came in the name of Jesus Pandera to heal him". This is given because it was important to prove that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies spoken of him. [104] Whether she was an aunt, a cousin, or a more distant relation cannot be determined from the word. The theory neatly accounts for the genealogical divergence. By the time of Jesus, it was already commonly understood that several prophecies in the Old Testament promised a Messiah descended from King David. [37], The earliest tradition that explains the divergence of Joseph's lineages involves the law of levirate marriage. So, Jesus was born of the virgin Mary, which in this genealogy means that Jesus was the supposed son of Joseph, not biologically, but legally. [66] Since papponymics were common in this period,[31] however, it would not be surprising if Matthat were also named Melchi after his grandfather. [35] His explanation for the different names given for Joseph's father is that Joseph had a biological father and an adoptive father, and that one of the gospels traces the genealogy through the adoptive father in order to draw parallels between Joseph and Jesus (both having an adoptive father) and as a metaphor for God's relationship with humankind, in the sense that God "adopted" human beings as his children. Why Matthew chose to include these particular women, while passing over others such as the matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah, has been much discussed[by whom?]. [6], Luke states that Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, was a "relative" (Greek syggenēs, συγγενής) of Mary, and that Elizabeth was descended from Aaron, of the tribe of Levi. According to this view, Matthew gives us several clues to suggest that he’s giving us a theological genealogy with an emphasis on King David, not a strict biological line. Richard Simon dove into the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, and explained some of the meaning and significance behind the genealogy of Jesus. An old problem for expositors has been the contradictory genealogies of Christ given in Matthew and Luke. The women are included early in the genealogy—Tamar, Rachab, Ruth, and "the wife of Uriah" (Bathsheba). Some, accepting the Masoretic reading, suppose that Pedaiah begot a son for Shealtiel through a levirate marriage, but most scholars now accept the Septuagint reading as original, in agreement with Matthew and all other accounts. After John of Damascus the claim that Luke gives Mary's genealogy is mentioned in a single extant Western medieval text,[when?] The Old Testament is silent on whether Nathan had children, so we may very well conclude that he had none. Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. [45] Richard Bauckham, however, argues for the authenticity of Luke alone. [46] The qualification has traditionally been understood as acknowledgment of the virgin birth, but some instead see a parenthetical expression: "a son (as was supposed of Joseph) of Eli. From this opening statement, we expect this family tree to help us understand not only the ancestral past of Jesus but also his identity and mission. All rights reserved. The genealogy of Jesus shows Him to be God’s promised Savior for all people. [citation needed]. He mentions the names of four women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba (who is the one to whom the pronoun “her” in verse six refers). Vol. Nathan was the older brother; Solomon was younger, next in line after him (see 2 Sam 5:14–16; 1 Cron 3:5), therefore he was the first candidate to a levirate marriage (compare Ruth 3–4; Lk 20:27–33). Matthew 1:1–17 begins the Gospel, "A record of the origin of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac, ..." and continues on until "... Jacob begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Matthew's genealogy includes four women, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba, who played important roles in OT history but at the end it is Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, who is named. [30] Sivertsen sees Luke's as artificially pieced together out of oral traditions. 1:1). Bible Dictionaries - Smith's Bible Dictionary - Genealogy of Jesus Christ, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. This article is about the biblical genealogy of Christ. Two Talmudic-era texts referring to Jesus as the son of Pantera (Pandera) are Tosefta Hullin 2:22f: "Jacob… came to heal him in the name of Jesus son of Pantera" and Qohelet Rabbah 1:8(3): "Jacob… came to heal him in the name of Jesus son of Pandera" and some editions of the Jerusalem Talmud also specifically name Jesus as the son of Pandera:[70] Jerusalem Abodah Zarah 2:2/7: "someone… whispered to him in the name of Jesus son of Pandera"; Jerusalem Shabboth 14:4/8: "someone… whispered to him in the name of Jesus son of Pandera"; Jerusalem Abodah Zarah 2:2/12: "Jacob… came to heal him. [8], Three consecutive kings of Judah are omitted: Ahaziah, Jehoash, and Amaziah. This means that Mary was from the line of Amram, but not of Aaron's generation. So, we can say that Joseph was the son of them both, The explanation offered by Africanus is correct, though he confused Melki with Matthat. 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