Women in the Matthean Genealogy
December 24, 2012 By Michael F. Bird Leave a Comment http://www.patheos.com/blogs/euangelion/2012/12/women-in-the-matthean-genealogy/ The Matthean genealogy gives us an account of the colorful people who make up Jesus’ lineage when he is adopted into the house of David. The late Michael Goulder wrote a wonderful poem about Jesus’ genealogy: Exceedingly odd, Is the means by which God Has provided our path to the heavenly shore: Of the girls from whose line The true light was to shine There was one an adulteress, one was a whore. There was Tamar who bore – What we all should deplore – A fine pair of twins to her father-in-law; And Rahab the harlet, her sins were as scarlet, As red as the thread which she hung from the door; Yet alone of her nation She came to salvation, And lived to be mother of Boaz of yore; And he married Ruth, A Gentile uncouth, In a manner quite counter to biblical law; And of her there did spring Blessed David t...