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Steve Wells ~

SW: "So poor Matthew was wrong again when he said:
'Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon.'"

Not at all, because "begat" does not necessarily refer to a direct siring of a son by his father; it can also refer to a grandfather-to-grandson relationship, and multi-great-grandather-to-descendant relationships.

WR: "WR: "This is not unusual in structured genealogies."
SW: "Isn't it interesting how the genealogies are "structured" only when it is necessary to avoid a contradiction (which is "not unusual.")"

They tend to be structured and/or condensed fairly frequently. Luke's genealogy of Christ also has a structure, though it is less obvious than Matthew's. And the genealogies in Genesis are also structured. And some other O.T. genealogies are condensed.

In other news: looking over the alleged difficulties listed in Matthew, there are 156 to go (in chapters 7-28), and in Mark there are 106. At a constant rate of addressing one difficulty per day, it'll take over eight months just to finish addressing the questions raised about Matthew and Mark. That's a lot of work! If I'm going to complete, say, the four Gospels by the end of 2005, I'll have to focus on the initial questions and keep sub-discussions to a minimum. Would that be okay with you? Perhaps it would be a good idea to delay making defenses of the initial defenses/resolutions later, after the initial answers are systematically put in place. This would give me some chance of completing the resolutions (at least in the Gospels) more rapidly.

Yours in Christ,

Waterrock