Difference between revisions of "Talk:Matt 1:6-10"
From Feast upon the Word (http://feastupontheword.org). Copyright, Feast upon the Word.
(Guiltless?) |
Joe Spencer (Talk | contribs) (quick explanation) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
How is it that Matthew seems to have found her guiltless? (and the same with Rahab?) --[[User:Seanmcox|Seanmcox]] 19:07, 21 Nov 2006 (UTC) | How is it that Matthew seems to have found her guiltless? (and the same with Rahab?) --[[User:Seanmcox|Seanmcox]] 19:07, 21 Nov 2006 (UTC) | ||
| + | |||
| + | :I think Robert's x-ref's probably help with Rahab in general. My point is that there are five women in the list (none of whom "need" to be mentioned at all in a genealogy), and that all of them--this is as clear as can be--have some sort of sexual stigma about them. For three--perhaps four--it is clear that the sexual stigma is a common public misreading (this is for the four besides Bath-sheba). The implication--and it is only an implication I am trying to draw out here--is that the same is true of Bath-sheba, that somehow she is also misread in terms of her sexual stigma. In other words, she might have been guiltless. The genealogy suggests one go back and re-read the story carefully (this does not suggest that David was innocent, since Judah does not seem to be let off the hook at all). I hope that helps. --[[User:Joe Spencer|Joe Spencer]] 15:52, 22 Nov 2006 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 11:52, 22 November 2006
How is it that Matthew seems to have found her guiltless? (and the same with Rahab?) --Seanmcox 19:07, 21 Nov 2006 (UTC)
- I think Robert's x-ref's probably help with Rahab in general. My point is that there are five women in the list (none of whom "need" to be mentioned at all in a genealogy), and that all of them--this is as clear as can be--have some sort of sexual stigma about them. For three--perhaps four--it is clear that the sexual stigma is a common public misreading (this is for the four besides Bath-sheba). The implication--and it is only an implication I am trying to draw out here--is that the same is true of Bath-sheba, that somehow she is also misread in terms of her sexual stigma. In other words, she might have been guiltless. The genealogy suggests one go back and re-read the story carefully (this does not suggest that David was innocent, since Judah does not seem to be let off the hook at all). I hope that helps. --Joe Spencer 15:52, 22 Nov 2006 (UTC)
