By Raymond E. Brown
Over his illustrious profession, Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Ph.D., used to be across the world considered as a dean of "New testomony" students. He used to be Auburn unusual Professor Emeritus of religious study at Union Theological Seminary in manhattan urban, acquired over thirty honorary levels from Catholic and Protestant universities world wide, and used to be elected a (Corresponding) Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the yank Academy of Arts and Sciences. as well as serving as president of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical organization, and the Society of recent testomony stories, popes appointed Father Brown because the sole American at the Pontifical Biblical Commission.Some of the simplest identified of his greater than thirty-five books at the Bible are 3 volumes within the "Anchor Bible" sequence at the Gospel and Epistles of John, in addition to the Anchor Bible Reference Library volumes "The beginning of the Messiah", "The dying of the Messiah", and "An creation to the recent Testament", winner of the 1998 Catholic Press organization Award for religious study. Father Browns premature dying on August eight, 1998, saddened all who knew him.
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In part, as we shall see, this situation reflects the history of the composition of Matthew's infancy narrative. In my judgment, Matthew has incorporated into the final narrative several different kinds of raw materials: lists of names of patriarchs and kings, and a messianic family tree; an annunciation of the Messiah's birth patterned on OT annunciations of birth; a birth story involving Joseph and the child Jesus, patterned on the patriarch Joseph and the legends surrounding the birth of Moses; a magi-and-star story patterned on the magus Balaam who came from the East and saw the Davidic star that would rise from Jacob; and finally some carefully chosen citations of Scripture.
Evangelium? (Aarhus University, 1958); and K. W. Clark, JBL 66 (1947), 165-72. 4 Matthew is thought to have written before the time (1:4. 110) of Ignatius of Antioch who knew Matthean tradition. ; J. L. Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 31fL The Fourth Gospel was written after this action (John 9:22); it is more difficult to be certain about Matthew. 6 R. ; Munich: Kaiser, 1966). He and others suggest that Matthew was engaged in another polemic as weU: against Gentile Christians who were antinomians O£ depreciated the Law.
Three sections in the genealogy, three scenes in 2:13-23. It is difficult to find three scenes in 2:1-12, however, and virtually impossible to find three in 1:18-2S. If ono breaks down ch. 2 beyond the two subdivisions, one can find five scones, as I shall illustrate in § 6, AI, below. § 2, B2 Internal Organization 53 on the patriarch Joseph and Moses); and the pre-Matthean outline has not been completely covered over in the final product. Thus some of the patterns that we have detected in points (a) through (f) above are really preMatthean patterns that have not been erased.