{"id":5765,"date":"2022-02-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2022-02-16T06:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T06:29:39","slug":"is-not-this-the-son-of-joseph-four-studies-in-the-gospel-infancy-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/blog\/is-not-this-the-son-of-joseph-four-studies-in-the-gospel-infancy-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Not This the Son of Joseph? Four Studies in the Gospel Infancy Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s free book is  little known study on the infancy narratives by Thomas Walker. My thanks to the folks at the United Reformed Church in Eastcote for their help in tracking down the details of the author. This title was digitised from the copy held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spurgeons.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spurgeon&#8217;s College<\/a> library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"thomas-walker-1881-1950-is-not-this-the-son-of-joseph-an-exposition-of-the-relevant-chapters-of-the-gospels-in-the-light-of-jewish-culture-london-james-clarke-co-ltd-1937-hbk-pp-116-click-here-to-visit-the-download-page-for-this-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalstudies.org.uk\/book_is-not-this-the-the-son-of-joseph_walker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas Walker [1881-1950], <em>Is Not This The Son of Joseph? An Exposition of the relevant chapters of the Gospels in the Light of Jewish Culture<\/em>. London: James Clarke &amp; Co., Ltd., [1937]. Hbk. pp.116. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"table-of-contents\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Preface<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Semitic Mysticism of the Conception Stories<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>The Evangelist&#8217;s Version of the Manger Story<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>The Evangelist&#8217;s Information on the Ancestry Question<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>The Evangelist&#8217;s Answer to the Nazareth Criticism<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_b63bd7-d6 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_b63bd7-d6 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_b63bd7-d6\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\" style=\"height:60px\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" style=\"border-top-color:#eee;border-top-width:1px;width:80%;border-top-style:solid\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Main Image: <em>Adoration of the Shepherds<\/em> by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632. 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