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These are opinionated essays. They argue positions on biblical-studies topics and draw conclusions from critical scholarship. For neutral, both-sides treatments that adjudicate nothing, see Scripture Analysis.
Tagged “Matthew”
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The Triumphal Entry: Fulfillment or Staging?
Mark's Jesus sends ahead for the donkey, and Matthew's version has two animals where Zechariah's poetry has one. Why the triumphal entry reads as an enactment rather than a prediction come true, and where scholars divide.
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Matthew's Fulfillment Formula: Creative Writing or Historical Reporting?
Out of Egypt, Rachel weeping, a Nazarene verse no prophet wrote, a field credited to the wrong prophet, and two donkeys. Matthew's fulfillment formula, read against the Old Testament passages it quotes.
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Overlapping Prophecies: The 24 Passages Critical Scholarship Shares with the Apologetic List
All twenty-four passages critical scholars read as messianic sit on the apologetic list too, but read whole, they describe Davidic kings and exilic hopes.
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The Proof-Text Game: How 356 Becomes 24
A popular list counts 356 prophecies fulfilled in Jesus. Check each verse in its context and the count falls to roughly two dozen that some ancient Jewish tradition read messianically, and only a handful of those predate Christianity.