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1. Genealogy Of Jesus

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   The Captivity to Joseph (husband of Mary)/)
   It is widely noted that Matthew/) compresses several generations to fit the neat division of $14+14+14$. Scholars often point to the absence of King Ahaziah, King Joash, and King Amaziah between Joram and Uzziah (Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah) as an intentional structural adjustment, a practice sometimes referred to as "Genealogical Sculpting" [Smith, 1998, p. 45]. This compression is often linked to the mystical significance of the number fourteen, whic…