Brown (Scholar)

Question 1

What is Brown interested in?

Answer 1

the role the infancy narratives play in the early Christian understanding of Jesus

Question 2

what is Browns main theme

Answer 2

is that the infancy narratives are more than history and attempt to demonstrate that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament and the personification of the people of God

Question 3

Brown also notes the biblical parallels between the infancies of Moses and Jesus

Answer 3

Moses saves the Jews from slavery in Egypt

Jesus saves humanity from the slavery of sin