Daughter

Peter J. Leithart
January 5, 2011
Category: Bible - NT - Matthew

In his essay on the hemorrhaging woman (Matthew 10) in The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels [1], Stuart Love points out that in Matthew Jesus addresses only two women with a gendered word, as “daughter” or “woman.”  The first is the woman with the 12-year flow of blood, a clear symbol of impure, desperate, but believing Israel (“daughter”); the other is the Syro-Phoenician “woman” (Matthew 15:28).

It’s a nice picture of Jesus’ ministry.  He helps both women, but the Israelite woman alone qualifies as “daughter.”

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