Recommended Readings:

• Warren Carter, “Matthew 1—2 and Roman Political Power,” New Perspectives on the Nativity, ed. J. Corley (New York: T. & T. Clark, 2009), 77-90.
• J. Nolland, “The Four (Five) Women and Other Annotations in Matthew’s Genealogy” in New Testament Studies 43 (1997): 527-539.
• Mark Allen Powell, “The Magi as Kings: An Adventure in Reader-Response Criticism” in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 62 (2000): 459-480

Articles: (click to view)

• “Unlikely Heroes: The Women of Matthew 1” by Jennifer Stasak
• “The Genealogy of Jesus Christ: A Tale of Two Trees” by Mary Fairchild
• “Was There Really a Virgin Birth in the Bible?” by Joel M. Hoffman
• “The Nativity” by Helen K. Bond
• “Monday Meditation: RCL Years ABC, Epiphany of the Lord, Matthew 2:1-12” by Gary Neal Hansen

Videos: (click to view)

Online Yale Bible Study with Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton, INCARNATION: Week 1, Come Thou Unexpected Jesus

Podcasts: (click to view)

Yale Bible Study podcast: INCARNATION: Week 1, Come Thou Unexpected Jesus

Charts: (click to view)

• “The Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel” by Hannah K. McKaughan

Art: (click to view)

• “Flight Into Egypt” by Guido Da Siena
• “Hortus Deliciarum, Der Stammbaum Christi” by Herrad of Landsberg
• “Flight into Egypt” by John August Swanson, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN

• “Flight into Egypt” by Jesus Mafa, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN
• “John Baptizes Jesus” by Jesus Mafa from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN