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Introduction to Matthew: Bible Study by Atheists
Before diving face-first into the Gospel of Matthew, we take a detour into the big awkward question Christians rarely love answering: who actually wrote this thing? Spoiler: probably not Matthew. The episode walks through the traditional claims, the scholarly doubts, the mystery author, the likely late-first-century dating, and the very convenient way this gospel tries really hard to make Jesus look like the long-awaited Jewish Messiah.This intro also gets into why Matthew is obsessed with prophecy fulfillment, Jewish identity, the destruction of the Second Temple, and framing Jesus as the…
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