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Matthew 1–7: A Commentary on Matthew 1–7 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The birth narrative, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, the beginnings of his Galilean ministry, the Sermon on the Mount are all brilliantly illumined by Ulrich Luz’s expert textual- and historical-critical analysis and theological commentary. Luz brings special attention to the subsequent history of Christian appropriation of Matthew in homiletical and artistic interpretation, and addresses...

17*. Matthew may be responsible for the concluding v. 17* and thus the schema of the three-times-fourteen generations.28 Do the various additions in the genealogy come from his hand? The reference to the brothers of Joseph and Jehoiakim makes no more sense in terms of Matthean interpretation than does the reference to Zerah alongside Perez.29 The (single) mention of the royal title with David and the (double) emphasized reference to the Babylonian exile could be related to the Matthean schematic of
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