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18 includes the Gentiles with the rest of the wolves (v. 16): Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.. and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles... When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel, before the Son of Man comes. 16a, 18, 23)15 Not only is the single substance of Israel highlighted, but the reputation of certain Gentile cities is also made clear: Woe to you, Chorazin!
2 and Deut. 17 as six nations: Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites. The Girgashites are added to the list in Deut. 3 more prohibitions are included against certain other enemies: 'No Ammonites or Moabites shall enter the assembly of the Lord; even to the tenth generation none belonging to them shall enter the assembly of the Lord for ever'. 5. Nancy de Chazal ('The Women in Jesus' Family Tree', Theology 97 [1994], pp. 413-19 [414]) introduces the women in this way: 'Tamar, from Genesis 38, who seduced her father-in-law Judah; Rahab, the prostitute from Jericho, who helped the Israelites to capture the city (Joshua 2); Ruth, a foreign woman from Moab who married Boaz, after some hanky-panky in a barn after heavy drinking at the harvest home (Ruth 3); the "wife of Uriah" the Hittite, Bathsheba, with whom David committed adultery (2 Sam.
Thompson (Early History, p. 128) distinguishes between 'reality' and 'tradition' in Old Testament accounts, distinctions that are appropriate in New Testament writings as well. Of the questions that Thompson asks of 'reality', the important application for this study is that, 'the traditions of the past [are] made present for present ideological purposes'; that is, Matthew uses Old Testament 'tradition' without addressing its 'reality'. 27. See, for example, Isa. 23. Since this study is concerned exclusively with Matthew's use of the tradition, that is, not how the tradition was originally formulated in the Old Testament text, I am working only marginally with data on the geography, language, politics and economics of the cities.