Matthew 1-2 with Richard Hays

Join us as Dr. Richard Hays (Duke Divinity School) guides us through Matthew 1-2. We discuss Matthew's genealogy, Jesus' escape from Herod, and how Matthew uses Israel's Scriptures in these chapters.
Relevant Books by Richard Hays
Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels. Baylor University Press, 2016.
Reading Backwards. Baylor University Press, 2014.
Reading with the Grain of Scripture. Eerdmans, 2020.
The Moral Vision of the New Testament. HarperCollins, 1996.
This Week’s Blurbs
In this episode, Richard recommends:
"The Beatles: Get Back" by Richard Jackson.
The Bible and Baptism By Isaac Morales OP.
The Parthenon by George Hobson.
Other Works Mentioned in this Episode
Leroy A. Huizenga, The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew. Brill, 2009.
Next Week
Next week, Dr. Paul House guides us through Deuteronomy 1-4.
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[@williammarut7515]

Well worth watching.

[@MapleMeHoney]

Thank you so much for this episode. Richard Hays is one of my favourite theologians of all time along with John Barclay.
I was wondering if it's possible to ask him how he came to understand the Greek word 'fulfill' the way he does?
It was so mind blowing to hear his explanation of the meaning of the word. Changes everything for me.

[@TheTwoTestaments]

Thanks for listening! We hope to have Hays back on another episode in a future season because he's one of our favorite biblical scholars as well, but, in the meantime, we imagine he likely addresses this issue in one of his books on biblical intertextually in the gospels, which are all worth reading.

[@romankim5484]

Thank you for this episode!

[@doejohn215]

"Don't labor to try to make sense of the differences of the genealogies or harmonize them, it would be a mistake to think of them as infallible historical accounts..." is one of the most epistemologically naive comments from a believing scholar I've heard. Hays and Wright get off on rejecting inerrancy. It is foolish and arrogant. Once you put yourself as the standard of determining wrong and right in God's word, you've made the same error as Adam in the Garden, assuming your mind and rationality are absolute. A sanctified answer is to say, "I don't know," as opposed to assuming you are omniscient and know for a fact it is an error. Be wary of elites who wouldn't be able to defend the Christian faith from a fight with a paper bag. This is not honoring to God. Call me a fundamentalist all you want, but your epistemology just gave up any authority to proclaim the wrath of God. Maybe Paul was wrong about that?
Make no mistake, infallibility will manifest somewhere. Either in your own judgement or you will differ to God's incomprehensibility and Absolute nature. To allow it to rest in your own reason is to presuppose that it is absolute. That is as pagan an instinct as it gets. These men are fooled into thinking they are just smarter than the rest of us who posit reasonable resolutions and then place the mysteries at the feet of God as opposed to in our own wisdom. That is a dangerous slope.