Episode 5: The Flight into Egypt, Matthew 2:13-18
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel
English - March 17, 2020 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBChristianity Religion & Spirituality News Politics bible gospel matthew jesus liberationist sociopolitical literature theology exegetical gospel of matthew Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, Jesus and his family become refugees. Fleeing their home country, which is under the brutal occupation of a foreign empire, they take refuge in Egypt, which, according to their national history, was both the place of their people's slavery and also a refuge for those escaping the Babylonian invasion.
With this story, the author of Matthew introduces the themes of Jesus-as-Moses and Jesus-as-Israel by using Exodus imagery. The texts from Jeremiah 31 and Isaiah 53 also play an important role in setting up the gospel motif of Jesus bearing the suffering of his people.