To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:12:26 -0400
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From: Jack Kilmon <jkilmon AT historian.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
chronologically? which is the more likely source of belief?
>
> Paul doesn't know about it and he died in the mid to late
> 60's. Matthew and Luke have different variants. This seems
> to place the development of the virgin birth sometime between
> 70 and 90 CE in Antioch or Ephesus. 4G, supposedly of Ephesian
> origin, has no virgin birth...so did Matthew get it from Luke
> or Luke from Matthew? Is it possible this was just a Matthean
> aggaddic midrash gone wild amongst the goyim?
What do you see as the original Matthean aggadic midrash?