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The Gospel of Matthew according to a Primitive Hebrew Text
George Howard (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1987) 12 228 pp., $49.95
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The Gospel of Matthew according to a Primitive Hebrew Text
George Howard (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1987) 12 228 pp., $49.95
1. Sent by her father to care for her “sick” brother, this daughter of an early Israelite king was raped by the devious brother and then unceremoniously thrown out.
2. Due to a woman’s jealousy, this son and his mother were sent away by the father with only bread and a skin of water.
3. Name the Widow who, unlike her sister-in-law, preferred to leave Moab and accompany her widowed mother-in-law back to Judah.
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