Matthew Book Assignment

Hey Girls,

Here's your next blog assignment, due Friday, 9/4/09 by midnight:

1. Read pages 300-306 in your textbook.

2. Answer the following questions and post your answers to your blog:

Read "Finally, the Messiah Has Come" on pp 300-301

a. Was Matthew the first gospel written?

b. What does "Gospel" mean?

c. What promise does Malachi close the OT with?

d. What does Matthew declare as he opens up the NT?

e. What does Matthew convince readers of?

f. Who wrote Matthew? When was it written?

Read "Shaking Jesus' Family Tree" on pp 302-303

a. Why were genealogies so important to Jews?

b. Did Jesus meet the "ancestral requirements" for being the Messiah? How?

c. Why is his family tree a bit odd?

d. How does Matthew target Jewish readers more than any other Gospel? (hint: see "The Jewish Gospel")

Read "Wise Men With Shocking News" pp 304-306

a. What does "Eastern lands" refer to?

b. What did the wise men bring?

c. Who predicted that the Messiah would come from Bethlehem?

d. What was Herod's "vicious" order?

e. When do scholars think Jesus was born? (What year)

Have fun!

Ms. M