A Political Implication of ‘from the Babylonian Exile to the Christ’ (Mt 1:17) to the Postwar Jewish Readers

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It has been the subject of much debate among N.T. scholars whether Jews of the first century A.D. believed that they still remained in the exile, though their ancestors had already returned from Babylon centuries ago. The present article attempts to address this issue in the study of Matthew, arguing from authorial reader’s viewpoint that the exile was not deemed over to the Jewish readers of post 70’s who readily thought of Babylon as an epithet for Rome.
According to the Gospel of Matthew, Israel is the people (lao,j) in need of salvation from ‘sins’ (Mt 1:21) and the ‘lost sheep without a shepherd’ (10:6 cf. 15:24). Despite the return from Babylon centuries ago, Israel’s current predicament is no better than the time of the exile.
Yet, Matthew’s genealogy articulates that the Babylonian exile has its terminus in Jesus. This good news resonates, not least with the Jewish readers who have recently undergone the fall of Jerusalem. To them, Babylon reads like an epithet for Rome. Although Israel is now under the yoke of the symbolic Babylon, they can still hope that it will be reversed by Jesus, the Christ.

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