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One of the earliest Christian confessions—that Jesus is Messiah and Lord—has long been recognized throughout the New Testament. Joshua Jipp shows that the New Testament is in fact centered around this foundational messianic claim, and each of its primary compositions is a unique creative expansion of this common thread. Having made this argument about the Pauline epistles in his previous book...

But despite the importance of Jesus’s Davidic ancestry, seen clearly in that David alone receives the moniker of “king” (τὸν Δαυὶδ τὸν βασιλέα, 1:6), the genealogy leaves us in no doubt that sin and evil have taken root within Israel’s kings.6 Judah, from whose tribe comes the line of David, is the one who fathers Perez and Zerah by Tamar; Tamar plays the part of the prostitute and deceives Judah as a means of procuring justice for
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