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A Tale of Two Families: "This Generation" and the Elect in the Book of Matthew.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Tale of Two Families: "This Generation" and the Elect in the Book of Matthew./
Author:	Rieske, Susan M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	474 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-06A.
Subject:	Biblical studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27548944
ISBN:	9781392555910

A Tale of Two Families: "This Generation" and the Elect in the Book of Matthew.
Rieske, Susan M.

A Tale of Two Families: "This Generation" and the Elect in the Book of Matthew. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 474 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wheaton College, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Jesus' phrase "this generation" (ἡ γενεὰ αὕτη) repeated several times in Matthew and the other gospels has been at the center of debate since the days of the early church. However, consensus concerning its meaning and significance is still lacking. This study explores how Matthew employs this phrase and its central term, γενεά, in his narrative as part of a "wicked generation" motif and the implications for his theology. By first establishing that Matthew presents his work as a family story of Jesus the Messiah, this study demonstrates that he is linking the messianic family with the elect seedline traced throughout the Old Testament. Then the concept of the "wicked generation" is explored in OT texts, showing how it is intertwined with the elect seedline, with a select few from each generation separated out as the righteous remnant, the true elect seedline and children of God who are persecuted by their wicked generations. This same phenomenon appears in the Second Temple literature and other key NT texts outside of Matthew surveyed in this study. From there, seven key passages in Matthew are examined where γενεά occurs: 11:16-19; 12:39-50; 16:1-4; 17:14-20; 23:29-36; 24:1-44, concluding with the use of γενεά in the genealogy and the missing generation represented within (1:1-17). In these texts, Matthew consistently contrasts the elect seedline family with the wicked generation of Jesus' time, thereby revealing the latter as representatives of a different family: the non-elect seedline and illegitimate children of God. In this way, Matthew's dichotomous presentation of "this generation" and the elect invokes the familiar story of the redemptive-historical conflict between the elect and non-elect seedlines traced back to Genesis. As the unique contemporary expression of this longstanding redemptive-historical reality, temporal, qualitative (moral), and genealogical (intergenerational) aspects surround the central term γενεά. As such, this motif serves an important function in legitimizing the messianic family as the true children of God and heirs of the kingdom while explaining the whys and wherefores of persecution in the evangelist's community at the hands of "this generation.".

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