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Introduction to the Course
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Week 1: Ancestry and Birth
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Week 2: Sermon on the Mount
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Week 3: Mighty Deeds
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Week 4: Controversies and Parables
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Week 5: Feeding the Hungry
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Week 6: The Beloved Community
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Week 7: Stories of the End
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Week 8: Death and Resurrection
Ancestry and Birth – Additional Resources
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)
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
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