Re: Luke 3:23

From: Steven Cox (scox@ns1.chinaonline.com.cn.net)
Date: Fri Dec 26 1997 - 22:32:15 EST


        Hi David
        I was never much good at maths, but who's to say
        that 14+15+14 didn't = 3x14 in those days?

        But if we must have a strict 42 names from Abraham
        to Christ, maybe counting both Jesus and Christ might
        be a more Jewish alternative to counting Mary as a
        generation?

        Would hWS ENOMIZET0 have any legal significance for
        a Gentile author? (any patrimony suits recorded on TLG?)
        Cheers
        Steven
      

At 13:23 97/12/23 -0500, David L. Moore wrote:
> If the emendation to substitute PATERA for ANDRA in v. 16 could be
>accepted, it would make the series of "fourteens" intelligible. The first
>fourteen generations would run from Abraham to David, inclusive. The second
>set of fourteen would include from Solomon to Jechoniah - not counting David
>twice. And the third set of forteen would, according to the same system of
>counting, begin with Shealtiel and end with Jesus - counting Mary as a
>generation between Joseph (her father according to the suggested emendation)
>and Jesus.



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