First, the mission of Jesus. He is the Messiah whose coming was anticipated and prophesized throughout the Hebrew Bible, also ...

The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of ... Jesus delivers five different sermons of this sort, just like the five books of Torah. There are a lot of elements in this story that ...

In certain cases it's known who exactly wrote a book of the Bible, according to Professor Polczer ... The professor even ...

The structuring of Jesus' teaching into five discourses imitates the five books of Moses, the Torah. Therefore some scholars have proposed that Matthew presents Jesus as a New Moses giving a New Law.

[Jerusalem Bible] Matthew 2:1-12, The Visit of the Magi 1 After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east. 2 "Where is ...

In Matthew's gospel, Jesus delivers five major speeches, which parallel the five great books of Moses known as the Pentateuch. The first and most important of Jesus' speeches is the Sermon on the ...